NASA’s Artemis program was projected to cost $93 billion through fiscal year 2025. New mission plans, rising contract values and incomplete cost...
Price every mine on the planet by what it digs up in a year and nothing comes close to Escondida: $18.5 billion of copper from one operation in the Atacama. Its owner's own guidance says the number is about to shrink, and the crown may not survive it.
Infrastructure projects can reshape national economies for decades, but their financial scale is difficult to compare. Some publish a revised construction budget;...
Government expenditure is one of the clearest measures of the scale of the public sector. It shows how much governments allocate to...
The largest technology infrastructure buildout in history PwC estimates that global investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure could reach $31.6 trillion through 2050,...
NVIDIA has authorized an additional $150 billion for its share repurchase program, bringing the company’s remaining authorized repurchase capacity to $235 billion....
Coca-Cola plans to invest $10 billion in U.S. infrastructure between 2026 and 2030. The company announced the figure on September 15, describing...
On September 3, 2026, West Virginia’s governor announced more than $81 billion in new private-sector data center investment, split between two projects...
The Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix was held in Madrid this weekend on a new circuit known as MADRING, built around the...
On September 8, 2026, the UK government published its new Space Strategy, led by a headline figure of £7.8 billion in funding...
China’s National Development and Reform Commission began deploying the first batch of its 2026 policy financing instrument this week, sending capital to...
On August 27, 2026, the state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the companies of Schwarz Group announced a planned investment of up to...
On August 23, 2026, Alibaba said it would raise HK$80 billion, about $10.2 billion, by selling new shares in Hong Kong, with...
South Africa has a new infrastructure number worth watching. More than 170 infrastructure projects with an estimated value of R264 billion are...
Ask how much of Bank of America Stadium’s renovation Charlotte taxpayers are covering and you’ll get two very different answers, both defensible,...
Hinkley Point C is the most expensive thing ever built on a single site. Eight years under construction, zero electricity produced. And...
On August 6, 2026, SpaceX and Tesla confirmed Terafab, a semiconductor mega factory planned for Grimes County, Texas, with Governor Greg Abbott’s...
Ottawa has put public money behind the package that replaces one of the most one-sided contracts in Canadian history. The price Quebec pays for the power is set to rise thirty-seven-fold on average.
On August 10, 2026, Siemens announced it would invest more than $200 million in two new US manufacturing facilities, one in Pendergrass,...
On July 16, the Korean government said SK, GS and Naver could be part of a private investment program worth roughly ₩550...
EY has bought a quantum computer for its Toronto office, as part of more than $3 billion it says it is putting into AI. Measured against its revenue, it is the largest pledge of the Big Four.
Amazon has invested more than $30 billion in Boone County, Kentucky since 2010, according to figures the company released on August 5,...
Apple used to publish what it spent on advertising. Ten years ago it stopped. What its filings show now, and why the answer is smaller than most people think.
Europe has been actively rearming for three consecutive summers, but this year stands apart. For the first time, the European Defence Agency...
On July 29, 2026, Porsche AG published its first half results, and at first glance, they don’t add up. The company sold...
When Flightradar24 announced that July 23, 2026 had been the busiest day for commercial flights ever tracked, more than 150,000 in 24...
On July 9, Micron announced a $50 billion increase to its US investment plan. That brings its total commitment through 2035 to...
Meta pulls in more than $100 billion a year from its core apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp. That business prints money. And yet,...
Forty eight teams. A hundred and four matches. One single prize of $50 million. That is what the 2026 World Cup looks...
On July 16, TSMC confirmed a $100 billion expansion of its investment plan in the United States. Its total commitment in the...
Some projects get measured in miles. Others get measured in years of delay. The Gulf Railway, the GCC Railway, gets measured in...
In 2008, California voters approved a $9.95 billion bond to link San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours, according to...
The FIFA World Cup 2026, currently taking place in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, is not only the edition with the...
On Sunday afternoon, as Kimi Antonelli celebrated his win at the Monaco Grand Prix by leaping into the harbor, the few hectares...
The headlines in June 2018 said the richest man in France had bought a Spanish burger chain. The buyer was a fund, the price was about $140 million, and the deal ended with the lender in charge.
In March 2023, Volkswagen put €180 billion behind its next five years. The figure is often described as a decade-long electric bet. The company's own planning rounds show what it covered, and how it has been cut since.
Pfizer's largest purchase in years cost $43 billion. Its own filings show the size of the hole it was bought to fill, and how much it still spends each year on research to fill the rest.
On January 3, 2025, Microsoft said it would spend $80 billion on AI-enabled datacenters in a single fiscal year. Its quarterly reports show what actually went out the door.
