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Big Tech’s AI data-center buildout shows no endgame
Nov 5, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this sustains central compute leverage—choice narrows unless new nucleation channels distribute access faster than capex concentrates.
Quarterly calls confirm record AI capex persists while returns lag. The signal: the old system is scaling, not optimizing, during the inversion.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.