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Capital flow drill-down

Money in, revenue out — the full breakdown.

Issue 07 · Week 23 of 2026.

The four-category capital scorecard expanded with named transactions, burn-to-revenue context, and a per-category trend across recent issues. Each row corresponds to a row in the summary table on the issue page.

Category

Frontier Labs.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI

Capital in

~$90B

vs ~$90B

Revenue out

~$20B

vs ~$20B

Burn / rev

~1.3x

Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

Frontier-lab capital remained elevated but quiet after the prior week's record close. The actionable read is that lab demand has translated into Vera Rubin early-adopter lists and HBM4 qualification pressure rather than a fresh financing event. Treat this row as capital already committed to capacity, not a new inflow.

This week’s transactions

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20W21W22W23
Capital inRevenue out/$B per issue

Category

Hyperscaler-Hosted.

Azure-OpenAI, AWS-Anthropic, Google Cloud-Gemini, Oracle-OCI

Capital in

~$181B

vs ~$180B

Revenue out

~$60B

vs ~$60B

Burn / rev

~0.3x

Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

The week's hyperscaler movement was strategic rather than a new earnings print: Google/Intersect's power-first data-center model pairs AI load with more than 1GW of dedicated generation. That is a capital-flow signal because future compute commitments increasingly require power development, land, and grid strategy before servers are ordered.

This week’s transactions

Trend across recent issues

W17W18W19W20W21W22W23
Capital inRevenue out/$B per issue

Category

Neoclouds.

CoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, Fluidstack, IREN

Capital in

~$12B

vs ~$12B

Revenue out

~$5B

vs ~$5B

Burn / rev

~3x

Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

The neocloud row held steady after the prior week's hyperscaler contract shock. The W23 implication is operational: Vera Rubin availability and HBM4 qualification help the supply side, but neocloud valuations still depend on converting signed offtake into energized, liquid-cooled capacity on time.

This week’s transactions

Trend across recent issues

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Capital inRevenue out/$B per issue

Category

On-Prem / Hybrid.

Enterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, Cisco / Dell / HPE

Capital in

~$91B

vs ~$90B

Revenue out

~$35B

vs ~$35B

Burn / rev

~2x

Lower means more capital out than in.

The read

A new sovereign-infrastructure report put the issue plainly: strategic compute now depends on firm power, permits, cooling, land, transmission, financing, and public consent. This does not change the gross capital estimate, but it changes what counts as bankable AI capacity. Sovereign buyers should assemble power and permitting before announcing GPU counts.

This week’s transactions

Trend across recent issues

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Capital inRevenue out/$B per issue

Methodology

Capital-in and revenue-out figures are quarterly or annualized as noted in the row, sourced from public earnings disclosures, SEC filings, and lab and vendor announcements. Burn-to-Revenue is revenue divided by committed capital. The trend chart shows up to eight prior issues. Data is updated weekly; revisions in future issues do not retroactively edit this one.

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