Global Multi-Industry: Potential China AI build-out acceleration; MI implications

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Global Multi-Industry: Potential China AI build-out acceleration; MI implications

Equity Research

U.S. Multi-Industry

9 June 2026

Global Multi-Industry

Potential China AI build-out

acceleration; MI implications

VRT, SU, ABB look best positioned. Geopolitics at present are U.S. Multi-Industry

likely to mean that this opp’y may not be as ripe for Western NEUTRAL

manufacturers as the Telcom / HVDC build-outs were earlier U.S. Multi-Industry

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This morning, Bloomberg reported that China is preparing to spend around CNY2trillion

(~$300bn) over the next 5 years on building out datacenters domestically. The

unconfirmed article says that state firms will operate the majority of these new datacenters, and

will rely on local suppliers, for instance for ~80% of the chips. For our broader perspectives on

global Datacenter GW capacity additions / the emergence of 800VDC technology, please see our

recent report.

We highlight the following US MI implications:

Some sales opp’y likely… It is likely that there will be some revenue opportunity for US MI