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Is It Time to Buy Data Center Stocks?

What the numbers tell us after the AI infrastructure bloodbath

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Daniel Romero
Oct 23, 2026
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The AI trade is going through a bloodbath.

The last trading session was simply brutal. Even large-cap companies like Lumentum, GE Vernova, Coherent, and Lam Research suffered double-digit declines in a single session.


Neoclouds and data center operators didn’t fare much better. The selloff continued, to the point that some of these stocks have erased all their AI-era gains when you look at their performance over the past few years.

Only Nebius stands out, largely because it resumed trading under its new ticker in a relatively depressed market.


The others, which went through the post-COVID-19 boom, have seen their stock prices return to pre-AI levels.

Investors are now asking themselves:

Is this an opportunity?

That’s the question I’ll try to answer today.


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