The AI build-out, as sworn to the SEC.
Capital expenditure from the filings themselves — no guidance, no press releases, no analyst decks. Every figure on this page was filed under penalty of law, and every figure carries its accession number.
This page is the exhibit. The space behind it is the product.
The wave, drawn from the filings.
Annual capital expenditure as each company filed it. The inflection is not a story anyone tells about the AI era — it is what the companies themselves swore to. Tap any point for its filing's accession number; that number is a public receipt anyone can pull at sec.gov.
The seam, shown and named.
Two of the five — Amazon and Nvidia — file the same economic reality under a different XBRL concept (PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets). A dashboard would quietly blend the sources; this page names the seam instead. Their series are drawn from their own tag, the tag rides every tooltip, and the numbers stay exactly as filed — Amazon's FY2025 figure, $131.8B, is the largest on the chart.
How this was made.
data.sec.gov XBRL, pulled on a six-hour schedule with a declared identity, as the SEC asks. Filed actuals only — guidance is never in a filing.
Each figure lands as a record carrying its fiscal year, form type and accession number — the receipt IS the payload.
The space's AI reads the records and writes the wave onto the board. Nobody typed a number.
What a company spends is filed; what it means is analysis. This page shows the former and leaves the latter to the reader.