{"id":561424,"date":"2026-08-07T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561424\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:00:14","slug":"4-us-tech-giants-amass-1-46tn-in-physical-assets-rivaling-oil-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561424\/","title":{"rendered":"4 US tech giants amass $1.46tn in physical assets, rivaling oil majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260806N Amazon\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Amazon&#8217;s PP&amp;E assets doubled from three years earlier to $538.7 billion, the largest company in the world by that measure. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">LAS VEGAS, Nevada &#8212; The combined value of property, plants and equipment held by four U.S. tech giants has jumped 140% over the past three years to $1.46 trillion, as artificial intelligence investments turn the former asset-light software businesses into infrastructure giants whose scale now rivals global energy majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s PP&amp;E assets doubled from three years earlier to $538.7 billion, the largest company in the world by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[276210,49811,365,276209,363,364,19092,2734,5410,111,139,69,4156,2849,276211,370,145,3040],"class_list":["post-561424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-146tn","tag-49811","tag-ai","tag-amass","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-assets","tag-giants","tag-majors","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oil","tag-physical","tag-rivaling","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}