Demand side

Hyperscalers

Three leaderboards covering the companies that actually buy the memory: hyperscalers, neocloud GPU landlords and the frontier model labs. Annual AI revenue, annual capex, backlog, contracted power and accelerator fleet, all sortable. Combined tracked capex across the 30 companies below is roughly $1.26T per year — that number is the single best leading indicator for DRAM and HBM pricing.

Updated 2026-08-08 12:00Z · public companies use reported filings, private companies use sourced estimates

Top 10 hyperscalers

The balance sheets that set memory demand. Capex here converts into HBM and DDR5 orders roughly two to three quarters later, which is why this table leads the price board.

10 companies · sortable · basis flagged per row

Top 10 hyperscalers by AI revenue, capex and key metrics
#Company
1
Alphabet (Google Cloud)
Mountain View, US · Q2 2026 / CY26 guide · reported

Google Cloud revenue rose 82% YoY to $24.8B in Q2 2026. Capex guide lifted to $195–205B; TPU v7 is the largest non-merchant accelerator estate.

$99.20B+82.00%$200.00B+66.00%$185.00B8,600 MW2050k13.40%
2
Amazon (AWS)
Seattle, US · Q2 2026 / CY26 guide · reported

AWS grew 37% in Q2 2026 to a $169B annualised run-rate — its fastest in 18 quarters. Capex guidance was raised to $220B in July.

$96.00B+44.00%$220.00B+51.00%$235.00B9,600 MW2250k14.60%
3
Microsoft (Azure AI)
Redmond, US · FY26 / CY26 guide · reported

Guided to roughly $190B of CY26 capex, of which about $25B is attributed to higher component pricing — memory inflation showing up directly in a hyperscaler budget.

$92.00B+58.00%$190.00B+42.00%$410.00B8,100 MW2400k14.10%
4
Oracle (OCI)
Austin, US · FY26 run-rate · derived

Highest backlog-to-revenue ratio in the group and now a serial debt issuer — RPO is dominated by a handful of AI tenants.

$36.00B+89.00%$82.00B+58.00%$525.00B4,800 MW860k6.80%
5
Alibaba Cloud
Hangzhou, China · FY26 run-rate · derived

Three-year AI infrastructure program; in-house Pingtouge silicon paired with domestic DRAM.

$16.40B+71.00%$41.00B+39.00%$29.00B2,600 MW500k4.40%
6
ByteDance
Beijing / Singapore · CY26 est. · estimate

Largest Chinese buyer; export controls push it toward domestic HBM and CXMT DRAM.

$14.80B+106.00%$46.00B+52.00%2,800 MW560k5.10%
7
Tencent Cloud
Shenzhen, China · FY26 run-rate · derived

Slower capex ramp than peers; management has repeatedly flagged accelerator supply limits.

$10.40B+44.00%$26.00B+16.00%1,700 MW330k2.90%
8
SpaceX (xAI / Colossus)
Starbase, US · CY26 est. · estimate

SpaceX absorbed xAI in February 2026 at a ~$250B mark; the combined entity is valued near $1.25T. xAI contributed ~$818M of SpaceX's ~$4.69B Q1 2026 revenue, and Colossus capex sits on SpaceX's own balance sheet.

$3.30B+240.00%$24.00B+150.00%1,500 MW340k3.10%
9
Meta Platforms
Menlo Park, US · CY26 guide · reported

Capex guide $130–145B with no cloud revenue offset — the purest memory-demand line in the group. Q2 operating margin fell to 31% from 43% a year ago.

$0.00B$137.50B+88.00%6,800 MW1850k11.50%
10
Apple (Private Cloud Compute)
Cupertino, US · FY26 est. · estimate

Smallest datacenter footprint of the group, but the largest mobile LPDDR buyer by units.

$0.00B$21.00B+62.00%1,000 MW180k8.40%

Top 10 neocloud companies

GPU-rental specialists. They carry the highest growth and the thinnest balance sheets in the chain — watch gross margin against backlog, because that spread is what breaks first if rental rates deflate.

10 companies · sortable · basis flagged per row

Top 10 neocloud companies by AI revenue, capex and key metrics
#Company
1
CoreWeave
Livingston, US · CY26 guide · reported

Q1 2026 revenue $2.08B (+112% YoY) with a $99.4B contracted backlog and 3.5GW of total contracted power, but a $740M net loss — the backlog is debt-funded and rate-sensitive.

$12.50B+144.00%$32.00B+92.00%$99.40B61.50%3,500 MW480k
2
Nebius Group
Amsterdam, NL · CY26 est. · estimate

Inference-led pivot after the Eigen AI and Clarifai acquisitions; European power contracts insulate it from US grid queues.

$6.80B+210.00%$13.50B+150.00%$28.00B54.00%1,400 MW190k
3
IREN
Sydney, AU · CY26 target · reported

Targeting $3.4B ARR by end-CY26 off a 140k GPU expansion, with >4.5GW of secured grid-connected power after the 1.6GW Oklahoma campus. Owns its power, the scarcest input after HBM.

$3.40B+245.00%$9.80B+165.00%$20.00B48.50%4,500 MW140k
4
Crusoe Energy
Denver, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Vertically integrated power plus compute; anchor build partner on very large single-tenant campuses.

$2.40B+150.00%$11.00B+132.00%$26.00B44.00%2,000 MW105k
5
Lambda
San Jose, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Hit ~$760M annualised at end-2025 (+79% YoY) and was valued at $5.9B in its $1.5B Series E; killed the on-prem hardware line and now sells to frontier labs and hyperscalers.

$1.60B+110.00%$4.80B+96.00%$9.50B42.00%700 MW82k
6
Core Scientific
Austin, US · FY26 run-rate · reported

Hosting-led economics: lower margin than pure GPU cloud, but power-secured and contracted long.

$1.60B+92.00%$5.40B+78.00%$12.00B27.50%1,800 MW30k
7
Nscale
London, UK · CY26 est. · estimate

Nordic hydro-powered capacity; sovereign-AI contracts give it unusually long-dated backlog.

$1.40B+300.00%$6.40B+200.00%$16.50B46.00%1,400 MW64k
8
Together AI
San Francisco, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Inference-weighted mix; sensitive to token-price deflation rather than GPU rental rates.

$1.05B+172.00%$2.80B+108.00%$4.60B52.00%300 MW50k
9
Fluidstack
London, UK · CY26 est. · estimate

Aggregator model with asset-light exposure; books frontier-lab training clusters.

$0.95B+195.00%$3.50B+165.00%$7.40B33.00%580 MW42k
10
Vultr
West Palm Beach, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Broad edge footprint, smaller cluster sizes — buys mid-tier accelerators and far more DDR5 per GPU.

$0.68B+82.00%$1.80B+70.00%$2.60B49.00%230 MW24k

Top 10 AI model companies

Frontier labs. Their compute commitments — not their revenue — are what suppliers price against, so capex here frequently exceeds revenue by a wide multiple.

10 companies · sortable · basis flagged per row

Top 10 AI model companies by AI revenue, capex and key metrics
#Company
1
Anthropic
San Francisco, US · May 2026 run-rate · reported

Run-rate revenue crossed $47B in May 2026 and it raised $65B at a $965B post-money — now the largest pure-play lab by both revenue and valuation. Reportedly paying SpaceX ~$1.25B/month for xAI-cluster capacity.

$47.00B+168.00%$58.00B+185.00%$965.00B120M58.00%
2
OpenAI
San Francisco, US · CY26 run-rate · estimate

~$25B annualised as of February 2026 with a 33% gross margin; inference costs projected at $14.1B and cash burn near $27B for 2026. Filed confidentially for an IPO in June 2026.

$25.00B+108.00%$68.00B+175.00%$852.00B900M33.00%
3
xAI (SpaceX)
Palo Alto, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Absorbed by SpaceX in February 2026 at a $250B mark; the combined group is valued near $1.25T. Standalone AI revenue is still the smallest of the frontier three, but Colossus capex is self-funded.

$3.30B+240.00%$24.00B+150.00%$1250.00B78M22.00%
4
DeepSeek
Hangzhou, China · CY26 est. · estimate

Efficiency-first training recipes; the clearest downside risk to per-token memory demand.

$1.30B+150.00%$5.40B+112.00%$48.00B195M61.00%
5
Mistral AI
Paris, FR · CY26 est. · estimate

European sovereign-AI anchor; smaller models pull DDR5 inference capacity more than HBM.

$1.20B+178.00%$3.80B+138.00%$27.00B34M51.00%
6
Moonshot AI
Beijing, China · CY26 est. · estimate

Kimi long-context models are KV-cache heavy — unusually high DRAM per served token.

$0.86B+188.00%$3.00B+128.00%$16.50B72M43.00%
7
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Beijing, China · CY26 est. · estimate

State-linked deployments; constrained to domestic accelerators and CXMT-supplied DRAM.

$0.66B+132.00%$2.40B+110.00%$12.50B42M39.00%
8
Cohere
Toronto, CA · CY26 est. · estimate

On-prem and private-deployment focus; sells into customers who buy their own memory.

$0.33B+88.00%$1.00B+58.00%$8.60B4M55.00%
9
Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Early revenue, very large reserved training footprint relative to headcount.

$0.32B$4.60B$50.00B8M18.00%
10
Safe Superintelligence
Palo Alto, US · CY26 est. · estimate

Pre-revenue, but reserved compute at a scale that shows up in supplier order books.

$0.00B$7.20B+190.00%$62.00B

How to read these tables

AI revenue / yr
Annualised revenue attributable to AI. Meta and Apple show zero because their AI spend is internal — there is no cloud line to sell.
Capex / yr
Annual capital expenditure. For model labs this is capex plus committed compute spend, which is why it often exceeds revenue several times over.
Backlog / RPO
Contracted revenue not yet recognised. High backlog against thin margin is the classic neocloud risk.
Power
Contracted or operating datacenter capacity in megawatts. Power, not capital, is the binding constraint through 2027.
Accelerators
Installed fleet in thousands of GPU-equivalents, normalising TPUs and Trainium against merchant GPUs.
Memory pull
Estimated share of global HBM and DRAM demand attributable to that buyer — a derived figure, not a reported one.