Hyperscaler List

Hyperscale cloud platforms

The ten platforms that sell hyperscale infrastructure to customers, compared on the numbers that decide a shortlist: where they run, how many zones they give you, and how much they spend.

10 operators · checked 2026-11-11 · method

Microsoft Azure591—331Fairwater Wisconsin and Atlanta: hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs per siteUSD 45.2bn incl. finance leases in FY2027 Q1 (Jul to Sep 2026)2026-11-11
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)451—271Up to 4.5 GW of additional Stargate capacity for OpenAI (agreed Jul 2025)USD 28.5bn in FY2027 Q1 (Jun to Aug 2026)2026-11-11
Google Cloud4311301292Visakhapatnam AI hub, India: gigawatt-scale, three campuses (ground broken Apr 2026)USD 51.4bn (Alphabet) in Q3 2026; USD 195bn to 205bn guided for 20262026-11-11
Amazon Web Services (AWS)39112412813.9 GW of new power added in 2025; total power capacity to double by end-2027USD 77.3bn PP&E purchases in Q3 2026; ~USD 220bn cash capex guided for 20262026-11-11
Huawei Cloud3411031———2026-11-11
Alibaba Cloud3211091182—RMB 67.7bn (Alibaba Group) in the quarter to 30 Jun 20262026-11-11
Tencent Cloud261701131—RMB 52.8bn (Tencent group) in Q2 20262026-11-11
IBM Cloud13139191—USD 457m net capex (IBM) in Q3 20262026-11-11
Baidu AI Cloud————RMB 11.4bn (Baidu Inc.) in Q2 20262026-11-11
ByteDance Volcano Engine————2026 AI capex budget above RMB 200bn, up from RMB 160bn (SCMP, citing sources)2026-11-11

Operator profiles

  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Group’s cloud runs 32 regions and 109 zones, opened Amsterdam in October 2026, and is spending RMB 380bn on AI and cloud infrastructure.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    39 regions and 124 availability zones, Trainium chips for AI, and a separate sovereign cloud for Europe.

  • Baidu AI Cloud

    Baidu sells AI infrastructure and the Qianfan model platform from Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Wuhan, Baoding and Hong Kong.

  • ByteDance Volcano Engine

    ByteDance sells the infrastructure behind its own apps through Volcano Engine: GPU instances, serverless GPU and model services from Beijing, Shanghai and Johor.

  • Google Cloud

    43 regions and 130 zones on Google-owned infrastructure, TPU pods for AI, and a gigawatt-scale AI hub under construction in India.

  • Huawei Cloud

    103 availability zones across 34 regions in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, with Ascend chips behind its AI services.

  • IBM Cloud

    13 multizone regions with three zones each, from Dallas to Chennai, plus IBM Sovereign Core for regulated workloads.

  • Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft lists 59 Azure regions with region codes, advertises 80+ regions and 500+ datacenters, and links its Fairwater AI sites into one AI superfactory.

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

    OCI advertises 50+ public regions in 28 countries, runs EU sovereign regions in Frankfurt and Madrid, and is building up to 4.5 GW of Stargate capacity for OpenAI.

  • Tencent Cloud

    26 regions and 70 zones across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, including finance-only zones in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.