Global AI Infrastructure
The AI build-out is a capex and power story: Microsoft added $115,948 million of property and equipment in the year to June 2026 (SEC filing), and data centre projects in Great Britain's grid connection queue totalled 73 GW in June 2025 (Ofgem).
20 verified facts tracked for this market — each with its source, reporting period and evidence tier. Tier 1 = primary institutions (central banks, statistical offices); tier 2 = disclosed industry panels.
| Metric | Value | Geo | Period | Tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined value of United States venture rounds of USD 1 billion or more in the quarter | 87.2USD billion | US | 2026-Q2 | T1 | nvca.org |
| First-time venture financings, United States | 5674deals | US | 2026-H1 | T1 | nvca.org |
| Median pre-money valuation at Series A, AI companies | 83.0USD million | US | 2026-H1 | T1 | nvca.org |
| AI venture deal value, United States | 355.9USD billion | US | 2026-H1 | T1 | nvca.org |
| Median pre-money valuation at Series B, AI companies | 267.0USD million | US | 2026-H1 | T1 | nvca.org |
| Grid capacity brought forward by connections reform, Great Britain (average acceleration six years) | 7.8GW | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Small 0-10 MW: number of data centre projects in the connection queue, Great Britain | 11projects | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Securities held at connection offer acceptance as a share of data centre project capex, Great Britain | 0.2percent of total capex | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Weighted average cost of capital of data centre projects, Great Britain | 10.95percent | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Share of consultation respondents in favour of a data centre commitment fee, Great Britain | 63percent of respondents | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Implied total capital expenditure of the Great Britain data centre connection pipeline | 693GBP billion | GB | 2026-07 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Large 50-100 MW: mean capital cost per MW of building a data centre, Great Britain | 12571109GBP per MW | GB | 2026-04 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Excess generation and storage capacity deprioritised from the connection queue, Great Britain | 300GW | GB | 2026-02 | T1 | gov.uk |
| Investment secured or safeguarded by the government grid-connection triage service, Great Britain | 35GBP billion | GB | 2026-02 | T1 | gov.uk |
| Computers and semiconductors as a share of US goods imports | 16percent | US | 2026 | T1 | federalreserve.gov |
| Samsung and SK Hynix combined share of global DRAM supply | 70percent | Global | 2026 | T1 | federalreserve.gov |
| Microsoft: additions to property and equipment, fiscal year (ends 30 June) | 115948USD million | global | 2025-07..2026-06 | T1 | sec.gov |
| Great Britain: contracted demand in the electricity connection queue | 125GW | GB | 2025-06 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Data centre projects in the electricity connection queue, Great Britain | 73GW | GB | 2025-06 | T1 | ofgem.gov.uk |
| Share of first-time-financed non-AI companies that raised a second VC round | 6.9percent | US | 2025 cohort | T1 | nvca.org |
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