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Capital flow drill-down

Money in, revenue out: the full breakdown.

Issue 20 · Week 36 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, xAIUnknownPrior Unknown · FlatUnknownPrior Unknown · Flatn/aNo reproducible W36 constituent ledger supports a category point estimate; no in-window financing or annual revenue disclosure establishes one.
Hyperscaler-HostedAzure-OpenAI, AWS-Anthropic, Google Cloud-Gemini, Oracle-OCIUnknownPrior Unknown · FlatUnknownPrior Unknown · Flatn/aNo reproducible W36 constituent ledger supports a category point estimate; Google's Fervo agreement has no disclosed consideration.
NeocloudsCoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, Fluidstack, IRENUnknownPrior Unknown · FlatUnknownPrior Unknown · Flatn/aNscale added up to $3.05B of delayed-draw commitments, but the unreproduced carried base prevents an honest category total or direction.
On-Prem / HybridEnterprise GPU clusters, sovereign and national programs, Cisco / Dell / HPEUnknownPrior Unknown · FlatUnknownPrior Unknown · Flatn/aNo reproducible W36 constituent ledger supports a category point estimate; the atNorth deal changes ownership rather than measuring new category capital.

Category

Frontier Labs.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI

Capital in
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Revenue out
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Burn / rev
n/aLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Prior rolling estimates are not reproduced because this issue's artifact set lacks the constituent list, valuation date, and formula inputs. Astra pricing and Anthropic's safeguards remain product signals, not category capital or revenue totals.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 3OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra Standard API (list pricing in software events)Not disclosedOpenAI
Sep 1Anthropic announces customer-controlled Enterprise Frontier SafeguardsNot disclosedAnthropic

Trend across recent issues

W29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
Capital in
$95B, $95B, $95B, $95B, $95B, $95B, $95B, n/a
Revenue out
$21B, $21B, $21B, $21B, $21B, $21B, $21B, n/a

Category

Hyperscaler-Hosted.

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

Capital in
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Revenue out
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Burn / rev
n/aLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Google contracted the firm Fervo geothermal capacity noted above and received an option for approximately 600 MW of conditional expansion. If accepted under a definitive agreement, total contracted capacity would be not less than approximately 950 MW, with June 2030 as the expansion's guaranteed commercial-operation date. None belongs in a capital total without disclosed consideration.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 1Google Energy signs 396 MW, 15-year Fervo power-purchase agreement; initial delivery targeted Q3 2028Not disclosedFervo filing mirror
Aug 31AWS-Azure private multicloud interconnect enters four-region previewNot disclosedAWS

Trend across recent issues

W29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
Capital in
$210B, $230B, $250B, $250B, $250B, $250B, $250B, n/a
Revenue out
$62B, $62B, $70B, $70B, $70B, $70B, $70B, n/a

Category

Neoclouds.

CoreWeave, Nscale, Crusoe, Lambda, Fluidstack, IREN

Capital in
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Revenue out
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Burn / rev
n/aLower means more capital out than in.

The read

Nscale closed $1.85B for Texas and $1.20B for North Carolina. These are maximum commitments available against future deployment milestones, not cash funded on August 31. They are shown as a transaction, not added to a fabricated rolling ledger.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Aug 31Nscale closes two investment-grade delayed-draw facilitiesUp to $3.05BNscale
Sep 3Firmus reserves future APX East capacity for its Australian AI-factory program~$300MFirmus and SUBCO

Trend across recent issues

W29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
Capital in
$17B, $17B, $17B, $17B, $19.6B, $24.6B, $25.5B, n/a
Revenue out
$5B, $5B, $5B, $5B, $8B, $8B, $8B, n/a

Category

On-Prem / Hybrid.

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

Capital in
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Revenue out
Unknownvs Unknown · Flat
Burn / rev
n/aLower means more capital out than in.

The read

CPP Investments and Equinix completed the atNorth acquisition, and AMD-Cisco-HUMAIN announced a live Saudi cluster. Neither supplies a reproducible aggregate for this category.

This week's transactions

Named transactions and source context.
DateTransactionAmountSource
Sep 2CPP Investments and Equinix complete atNorth acquisition~$4.0BEquinix and CPP Investments
Aug 31AMD-Cisco-HUMAIN production MI355X and 800G cluster goes live; scale undisclosedNot disclosedAMD

Trend across recent issues

W29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
Capital in
$101B, $101B, $101B, $101B, $103B, $103B, $103B, n/a
Revenue out
$36B, $36B, $36B, $36B, $38B, $38B, $38B, n/a

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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