Western Digital and Seagate each fell 10.2% after Nikkei Asia reported Toshiba will spend $400 million to double its AI hard-drive capacity in fiscal 2027. The bull case now turns on timing, because Toshiba's extra drives reach the price talks only when hyperscalers negotiate 2028 terms.
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About $1.2 trillion of data-center leases that have not begun and $1.9 trillion of chip and equipment purchase agreements sit in the footnotes of nine tech firms whose capex over the past year was around $600 billion.
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Nikkei says the Japanese insurer expects spreads above 2% on US project-finance lending that includes data-center construction. The 2 trillion yen is announced capacity across all infrastructure, with no developer named.
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Toyota planned its year on 160 yen to the dollar while the market pays about 153, and at 50 billion yen of operating profit for every yen that gap is worth 300 billion to 350 billion. Daiwa's arithmetic puts the index-wide cost nearer 1.4%.
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Nikkei Asia says the Pixel 11 was developed and built entirely in Vietnam. That build is now the standard Google's watch and earbud lines have to meet by 2027.
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