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Got $1,000? 3 Stocks Building the Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Era

AI's next big investment opportunity may not be another software company. Instead, it may be these three stocks helping build the physical infrastructure that makes the AI boom possible.

Got $1,000? 3 Stocks Building the Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Era

Published September 5, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Artificial intelligence has looked like a software story for the past few years. Investors bought GPUs, cloud platforms, and model companies that can run AI models for everyday users. But there is another part of the AI boom that is becoming harder to ignore: AI requires a huge amount of physical infrastructure.

A server cannot run a large AI model without power. A rack packed with accelerators cannot operate without moving enormous amounts of data or removing the heat those chips generate. That creates an interesting opportunity for investors who want exposure to AI without buying the same handful of megacap stocks.

Details

Three companies stand out to me. They operate in very different markets, but all three are attacking physical bottlenecks created by increasingly powerful AI systems.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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