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Data files behind the pages, checked on October 28, 2026 (big-tech-capex.csv) and October 25, 2026 (btos-ai-national.json)
File	What it holds	Source
big-tech-capex.csv	Quarterly purchases of property and equipment of Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle, with the filing, accession number and XBRL tag for each figure	SEC filings
btos-ai-national.json	Share of US businesses using AI, and expecting to, by two-week survey period, as published by the Census Bureau	US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey, AI use

The big tech capex file is rebuilt from the SEC's company facts by fetch_capex.py; the tracker page and every sum on it are computed from that file.

TODO for Robb: add each source's license and redistribution rule (open, or cite-only), and the AI at Work Dataset once it is published.

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