Pheonix Research - Editorial Index
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The big four guided to roughly USD 720–745 billion of 2026 capex. Three of those four numbers moved this year — one on memory prices, one on schedule, one on an accounting change. Capex is a contents index, not a building count.
A GB200 NVL72 rack draws 132 kW and returns coolant at 65°C. Rack heat has risen elevenfold since 2022 while the liquid cooling market grows 2.4 times by 2033. The gap is where the margin lives, and it is not in the cold plate.
AI racks now concentrate more electrical power into less floor space than the buildings housing them were designed to carry. The data center's decisive technology has moved off the processor and onto the power and thermal plant beneath it — and the money is following.
A 9.1% run to 2033, a market that doubles exactly, and a labour shortage measured in percentages of operators. Inside data center management — the layer where the AI build-out is actually decided.
A 9.8% run to 2033, a rack that draws like 65 households, and a physics ceiling that air cannot clear. Inside data center cooling — the market AI is building without meaning to.
