The level of investment pouring into new infrastructure from datacenter operators is comparable to the turnover of some mid-sized economies.

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According to figures from researchers at Omdia , the annual datacenter capex of cloud giant Amazon alone now exceeds $100 billion, making it roughly comparable to the entire GDP of Costa Rica, and greater than that of Luxembourg or Lithuania.

For the other major cloud players, Google comes in with a capex spend of $82 billion, making it larger than Slovenia's economy, while Microsoft manages $75 billion, more than the GDP of Uganda. Meta's $69 billion means it is spending more than the output of Bahrain.

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