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# The Infrastructure Freight Train, Big Tech, Bigger Bets, Money, Law & Mischief
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-05-29-am/
- Published: 2026-05-29T10:05:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-29T10:05:36.000Z
- Description: The AI infrastructure money keeps compounding: data centers, debt, enterprise deployments, and now the Pentagon — all accelerating at the same time. A few of the week’s shinier narratives (Colossus, Agentforce, Anthropic’s run rate) are getting a closer look in the cold light of Friday.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

The AI infrastructure money keeps compounding: data centers, debt, enterprise deployments, and now the Pentagon — all accelerating at the same time. A few of the week's shinier narratives (Colossus, Agentforce, Anthropic's run rate) are getting a closer look in the cold light of Friday.

> **$14.5B** — Taiwanese tech firms have already completed a record amount of debt deals this year, racing to finance AI capacity build-out. *(Bloomberg)*

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### Machines & Minds

#### [Taiwanese Tech Firms Complete Record $14.5B in Debt Deals YTD](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/ai-boom-fuels-record-14-5-billion-in-taiwan-tech-firm-borrowing?ref=adjacent.media)

The AI capacity race is now a debt supercycle, and Taiwan's chipmakers are borrowing at a pace that would have been unthinkable two years ago. *(Bloomberg)*

#### [AtlasEdge Raises $1.2B in Debt to Scale European Data Centers](https://thenextweb.com/news/atlasedge-12bn-loan-european-data-centers?ref=adjacent.media)

European data-center infrastructure is finally catching up to demand — Liberty Global and DigitalBridge's joint venture just made one of the continent's bigger infrastructure bets. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Australia's Record $6.2B Data Center Quarter Lifted National Investment Growth](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/record-spend-on-data-centers-drives-australia-investment-growth?ref=adjacent.media)

Up roughly 2x quarter-over-quarter — data centers are now a macroeconomic line item for an entire country. *(Bloomberg)*

#### [Pentagon Signs $9.7B Five-Year Deal with Dell for Microsoft 365 and Cloud](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/dell-dod-pentagon-software-deal-digital-infrastructure-trump.html?ref=adjacent.media)

The US military is standardizing on commercial cloud at scale, and Dell is the unexpected vehicle for a nearly $10B software contract. *(CNBC)*

### Connected World

#### [Salesforce Q1: Revenue Up 13%, Agentforce ARR Up 205% to $1.2B](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/salesforce-crm-q1-earnings-report-2027.html?ref=adjacent.media)

Agentforce is growing fast, but the below-consensus Q2 forecast is the number the market will actually argue about today. *(CNBC)*

#### [Salesforce Goes "Headless" as Anthropic's Usage of Sales Cloud Increases 5x](https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/05/28/salesforce-waves-bye-bye-to-ui-in-headless-embrace/5247587?ref=adjacent.media)

When your fastest-growing enterprise customer accesses your product entirely through an LLM, the traditional UI stops being the product. *(The Register)*

#### [Meta Eyes Cloud Computing Business If Data Center Spending Produces Excess Capacity](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-starting-cloud-business-on-the-table.html?ref=adjacent.media)

Zuckerberg is floating a fourth major cloud competitor as casually as you'd float a meeting agenda item. *(CNBC)*

#### [Meta Plans to Embed Engineers Inside Large Enterprise Customers for AI Deployment](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-launches-new-enterprise-push-boost-business-adoption-ai-tools?ref=adjacent.media)

This is the old-school enterprise sales playbook — white-glove deployment teams — revived for the AI adoption era. *(The Information)*

> “One big reason why Anthropic is having a blowout quarter is that companies have been 'tokenmaxxing' for the last few months, encouraging employees to use GenAI as much as possible, without much regard to payoff.” — *Gary Marcus*

### Connected World

#### [Google Engineer Charged with Insider Trading After Making $1.2M on Polymarket](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/google-engineer-charged-with-insider-trading-after-making-1-2m-on-polymarket/?ref=adjacent.media)

Prediction markets meeting insider trading law was always going to produce a test case eventually — this appears to be it. *(TechCrunch)*

#### [Kirkland & Ellis Sets Aside $500M to Build Its Own Proprietary AI Platform](https://www.ft.com/content/1825bb59-7b28-460d-b009-ee3cea5dbac3?ref=adjacent.media)

The world's highest-grossing law firm is betting that its competitive edge lives in AI it controls, not AI it shares with opposing counsel. *(Financial Times)*

#### [Philly Semiconductor Index Up \~75% YTD, On Track for Best Year Since 1999](https://www.ft.com/content/48cdf575-5509-4b50-a54d-1b767e41be47?ref=adjacent.media)

For context, 1999 was also a year people were asking whether valuations had completely decoupled from fundamentals. *(Financial Times)*

#### [Ferrari Unveils Its First Electric Vehicle — and the Car World Is Upset About It](https://www.wired.com/story/i-like-ferrari-luce-ev-but-this-is-why-its-heartbreaking/?ref=adjacent.media)

The Luce exists, it's electric, and the purists are apparently in mourning — which means it's probably fine. *(WIRED)*