Liquid cooling, networking, and the buildings themselves.
Once the chips and the power are in place, you still need to keep them cool, move data between them, and own the building. Vertiv and Modine ride the liquid cooling cycle. Arista and Cisco wire the racks together. Digital Realty and Equinix own the dirt. This is the picks-and-shovels of the picks-and-shovels. Less narrative, more compounding revenue.
Cooling & Data Center Infra · 1d avg
+0.52%
6 tickers tracked
Signals (three independent reads)
Fund momentum
0
Funds steady — no meaningful 13F changes this quarter.
Sentiment trend (7d)
+2
4 articles · 50% bullish · split.
Canon citations
1
1 structural from Aschenbrenner.
What the canon says
“The buildout is physical. Concrete, copper, transformers, cooling water — all on the critical path.”
Aschenbrenner · structural
Parallel readings, not a composite score. Composite scoring lands in v3 once each signal validates against subsequent moves.
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