Something wild is happening with US tech spending right now.
Tech and related companies are burning through capital at levels we've never seen. They're eating up 45% of all S&P 500 CapEx. Forty-five percent. Let that sink in.
Over the past decade? This number jumped roughly 20 percentage points. That's not gradual shift—that's a structural transformation in where corporate America parks its money.
Here's the kicker: even during the 2000 Dot Com madness, tech CapEx only peaked around 39%. We've blown past that threshold.
Meanwhile, commodity sectors are getting squeezed out of the capital allocation game. The contrast couldn't be sharper—Big Tech is doubling down while traditional industries watch from the sidelines.
This isn't just another cycle. The concentration of capital firepower in tech infrastructure tells you where the real bets are being placed.
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FrogInTheWell
· 11-30 12:18
45%? How crazy does it have to be, it's not even as ridiculous as the Netscape bubble.
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zkNoob
· 11-28 00:51
45%? Wow, how crazy is that number, even more outrageous than the internet bubble.
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WalletAnxietyPatient
· 11-28 00:51
45%? How crazy must that be, even more absurd than during the internet bubble era.
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Deconstructionist
· 11-28 00:45
45%... What the hell is this, a bubble or the future?
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Not even the dot com era was this ridiculous, really cowardly
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Big tech makes money, traditional industries only get leftovers, and now it's like this
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Wait, this data can't really be fake, right? Feels a bit overfit
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The Fed is printing money, tech dads are sucking blood, it's a cycle
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To put it bluntly, there's just nowhere else to invest, except burning money playing with AI
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All the smart Satoshis are betting on this, and when it crashes, we're all done together.
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MeltdownSurvivalist
· 11-28 00:35
45%? This directly exceeds the peak of the internet bubble; the tech giants have really taken the US economy hostage.
Something wild is happening with US tech spending right now.
Tech and related companies are burning through capital at levels we've never seen. They're eating up 45% of all S&P 500 CapEx. Forty-five percent. Let that sink in.
Over the past decade? This number jumped roughly 20 percentage points. That's not gradual shift—that's a structural transformation in where corporate America parks its money.
Here's the kicker: even during the 2000 Dot Com madness, tech CapEx only peaked around 39%. We've blown past that threshold.
Meanwhile, commodity sectors are getting squeezed out of the capital allocation game. The contrast couldn't be sharper—Big Tech is doubling down while traditional industries watch from the sidelines.
This isn't just another cycle. The concentration of capital firepower in tech infrastructure tells you where the real bets are being placed.