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Alphabet’s 2Q2026 Results: More Capital Spending and Cloud Backlog

Alphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings call put a number on the AI buildout: $44.9 billion in quarterly capex, with guidance raised to $195–$205 billion for the year. For ITAD and recycling providers, the real story isn’t the revenue growth, it’s the asset volume that spending signals down the line.

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ERI confirms ITAD shift toward minerals

Jul 5, 2026

Electronic Recyclers International’s newly released fiscal 2025 Impact Report details the company’s environmental, governance and operational performance, while also offering a window into how one of North America’s largest ITAD and electronics recycling companies...

The Euro Report 1: France’s Electronics Lifecycle Market where Repair and Resale Outpace Recycling

Jun 23, 2026

France is emerging as Europe’s clearest example of electronics value shifting from recycling toward reuse and lifecycle management: Commercial proof points are mounting — Back Market closed 2025 with $3.5 billion in GMV and its first profitable year, while Amazon’s €15 billion investment roadmap, Google’s first French data center, and SoftBank’s €45 billion campus signal a coming wave of high-value data center decommissioning. For investors looking at that market, the key takeaway is that value is migrating from shredding and smelting toward capture, repair, and remarketing, and France offers one of the clearest previews of where that shift is heading.