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PwC and Oxford Economics project roughly $800 billion of global data-center capex in 2026, chiefly for servers, networking, and AI GPUs. DIRECT_TEXT

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In our central scenario projection, data centres attract US$31.6 trillion of capital expenditure globally through 2050... annual spending accelerates over time, rising from roughly $800 billion in 2026 to $1.1 trillion in 2030 to $1.8 trillion in 2050. That’s because the bulk of the spend doesn’t go towards the buildings. Rather, it funds what fills them: servers, storage systems, networking equipment, central processing units (CPUs), and, crucially, the graphics processing units (GPUs) that provide compute power for AI.

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