%% AI infrastructure value chain, bottom-up (as of 2026-09-30). Red=shortage, amber=tight, green=balanced. flowchart BT subgraph P["1 Power & fuel"] NUC["Nuclear: CEG VST TLN OKLO SMR | fuel CCJ LEU"]:::short GAS["Gas: turbines GEV Siemens Energy MHI | IPPs VST NRG CEG | EQT"]:::short REN["Renewables+storage: NEE FSLR ENPH TSLA FLNC"]:::tight ONS["On-site/fuel cells: BE | coal = delayed retirements"]:::tight GRID["Grid equipment: ETN VRT PWR HUBB GEV (transformers ~128 wk)"]:::short end subgraph R["2 Regional supply vs demand"] PJM["PJM: cap $325/MW-day, 6.8 GW short (Jul-26) - D AEP EXC"]:::short ERC["ERCOT: 400+ GW large-load requests - VST NRG"]:::short OTH["MISO/SE/SPP/West tight - SO DUK ETR XEL NEE | CAISO ok | Intl: IE NO Gulf Asia"]:::tight end DC["3 Data centers & cooling: EQIX DLR IREN CRWV NBIS APLD VRT MOD Schneider"]:::tight subgraph S["4 Semiconductors"] ACC["Accelerators: NVDA AMD AVGO MRVL TPU Trainium INTC"]:::tight FAB["Foundry & tools: TSM INTC Samsung | ASML AMAT LRCX KLAC TEL"]:::tight PKG["CoWoS/packaging & test: TSM AMKR | FORM TER"]:::short end MEM["5 Memory: HBM/DRAM/NAND - MU SK Hynix Samsung SNDK WDC STX (sold out)"]:::short NET["6 Networking/optics: ANET AVGO NVDA CSCO CIEN COHR LITE ALAB CRDO CLS GLW"]:::short SRV["7 Servers: SMCI DELL HPE CLS Foxconn Quanta"]:::tight CLD["8 Cloud: MSFT AMZN GOOGL META ORCL + CRWV NBIS (~$720-745B 2026 capex)"]:::tight LAB["9 AI labs: xAI via SPCX | OpenAI via MSFT | Anthropic via AMZN GOOGL | DeepMind | Meta"]:::tight APP["10 Apps & security: PLTR CRM NOW CRWD SNOW MDB"]:::ok NUC & GAS & REN & ONS --> GRID GRID --> PJM & ERC & OTH PJM & ERC & OTH --> DC FAB --> PKG MEM --> PKG PKG --> ACC ACC & NET --> SRV DC & SRV --> CLD CLD --> LAB --> APP classDef short fill:#4a1c1c,stroke:#ff5c5c,color:#fff classDef tight fill:#4a3a12,stroke:#f5b841,color:#fff classDef ok fill:#123a2a,stroke:#3ecf8e,color:#fff