Hyperscalers' Trillion-Dollar Bets Eclipse America's Greatest Megaprojects

As hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft compete fiercely for AI and cloud dominance, their combined infrastructure spending has surpassed the cost of America's most iconic national projects—from the Interstate Highway System to the Apollo program. This shift underscores a fundamental power redistribution where private tech companies now wield investment capital rivaling nation-states, intensifying competition for technological supremacy and reshaping the global competitive landscape.