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Capital flow drill-down

Money in, revenue out: the full breakdown.

Issue 09 · Week 25 of 2026.

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

Capital flow scorecard

Capital in, revenue out, burn ratio, and movement.

Capital in, revenue out, and direction of travel for this issue.
CategoryCapital inRevenue outBurn to revenueMovement
Frontier LabsOpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI~$95BPrior ~$95B · Flat~$21BPrior ~$21B · Flat~1.3xNo new frontier-lab round closed; the action moved to open weights (GLM-5.2 MIT) and to Fable 5 staying government-suspended, not to lab balance sheets.
Hyperscaler-HostedAzure-OpenAI, AWS-Anthropic, Google Cloud-Gemini, Oracle-OCI~$187BPrior ~$185B · Up~$62BPrior ~$62B · Flat~0.3xAmazon ($10B Missouri) and Google ($1.5B Alabama) added grid-connected capacity, both explicitly paying 100% of interconnection cost amid FERC cost-shift scrutiny.
NeocloudsCoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, Fluidstack, IREN~$12BPrior ~$12B · Flat~$5BPrior ~$5B · Flat~3xCoreWeave's backlog ticked to ~$100B with a Cantor estimate of ~$131B by end-Q2; Meta–Crusoe's reported ~1.6GW deal stayed unconfirmed.
On-Prem / HybridEnterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, Cisco / Dell / HPE~$94BPrior ~$93B · Up~$36BPrior ~$36B · Flat~2xFERC's six show-cause orders put national interconnection rules in play; Cummins–Circe committed 2GW of behind-the-meter gas, and TensorX/Solstice lined up up-to-$1B of EU sovereign-AI financing.

Category

Frontier Labs.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI

Capital in
~$95Bvs ~$95B · Flat
Revenue out
~$21Bvs ~$21B · Flat
Burn / rev
~1.3xLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Frontier-lab capital was quiet in-window. No new mega-round priced, and both OpenAI (Jun 8) and Anthropic (Jun 1) remain at the confidential-draft-S-1 stage with nothing publicly visible on EDGAR. The competitive pressure this week came from the open-weight side — GLM-5.2's MIT release at ~1/6 the cost of comparable frontier models — rather than from new financing. Treat this row as capital already committed; the next regime change is a public S-1.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Jun 15-21No new frontier-lab round; OpenAI and Anthropic S-1s remain confidential draftsNo public S-1CNBC; OpenAI; Anthropic

Trend across recent issues

W18W19W20W21W22W23W24W25
Capital in
$52B, $52B, $52B, $52B, $90B, $90B, $95B, $95B
Revenue out
$35B, $45B, $48B, $48B, $20B, $20B, $21B, $21B

Category

Hyperscaler-Hosted.

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

Capital in
~$187Bvs ~$185B · Up
Revenue out
~$62Bvs ~$62B · Flat
Burn / rev
~0.3xLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Hyperscaler build-out continued with two incremental campus commitments — Amazon's $10B Montgomery County, MO site and Google's $1.5B Jackson County, AL expansion — both framed around paying full interconnection cost so ratepayers are not burdened. That framing is now standard messaging under FERC's cost-shift scrutiny. The aggregate ~$725-805B 2026 capex guide is carried flat (no new top-4 print in-window); these are demand-led capacity adds, not a strategy change.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Jun 15Amazon $10B data-center campus, Montgomery County, MO (pays 100% interconnection)$10BMissouri DED
Jun 16Google $1.5B Jackson County, AL expansion (>300MW contracted, Kairos SMR partner)$1.5BAlabama Reporter

Trend across recent issues

W18W19W20W21W22W23W24W25
Capital in
$58B, $58B, $58B, $60B, $180B, $181B, $185B, $187B
Revenue out
$13B, $13B, $15B, $20B, $60B, $60B, $62B, $62B

Category

Neoclouds.

CoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, Fluidstack, IREN

Capital in
~$12Bvs ~$12B · Flat
Revenue out
~$5Bvs ~$5B · Flat
Burn / rev
~3xLower means more capital out than in.

The read

The neocloud row held flat on fresh capital but the backlog signal firmed: company-adjacent reporting puts CoreWeave's backlog at ~$100B as of mid-June (vs the $99.4B Q1 figure), with Cantor Fitzgerald modeling ~$131B by end-Q2 — analyst-estimated, not company-guided. Meta's reported ~1.6GW Crusoe deal (Childress TX + Warrenton MO) remained unconfirmed with both parties declining comment. Operators should keep weighting conversion velocity over headline backlog.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Jun 15CoreWeave backlog ~$100B (Cantor estimate ~$131B by end-Q2)~$100B (est. ~$131B)Inc. / Barron's (Cantor estimate)
Jun 18Meta–Crusoe ~1.6GW (reported, unconfirmed; both declined comment)~1.6GW (reported)Bloomberg

Trend across recent issues

W18W19W20W21W22W23W24W25
Capital in
$18B, $28B, $30B, $30B, $12B, $12B, $12B, $12B
Revenue out
$2B, $3B, $3B, $3B, $5B, $5B, $5B, $5B

Category

On-Prem / Hybrid.

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

Capital in
~$94Bvs ~$93B · Up
Revenue out
~$36Bvs ~$36B · Flat
Burn / rev
~2xLower means more capital out than in.

The read

The on-prem/sovereign row is increasingly a power-and-permitting story. FERC's Jun 18 orders force every major RTO/ISO to rewrite large-load interconnection within 60 days, while developers keep building their own generation — Cummins will supply 2GW of behind-the-meter gas to Circe's West Texas campuses, bypassing the ERCOT queue. In Europe, TensorX and Solstice lined up an up-to-$1B GPU/data-center financing facility (capacity, not a drawn commitment). Sovereign and on-prem buyers should assemble firm power and permitting before announcing GPU counts.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Jun 18FERC issues six Section 206 show-cause orders rewriting large-load interconnectionAll US RTOs/ISOs (60-day clock)FERC; Day Pitney
Jun 16Cummins to supply 2GW behind-the-meter gas to Circe Energy (West Texas)2GW BTMmgrid

Trend across recent issues

W18W19W20W21W22W23W24W25
Capital in
$42B, $42B, $45B, $45B, $90B, $91B, $93B, $94B
Revenue out
n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a, $35B, $35B, $36B, $36B

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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