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RANK.AI DATA / LATEST PUBLICATION
AI compute Ownership by company
6 companies ranked by estimated owned compute (median).
Google is out in front at 5,453,215 H100e.
6 companieschecked May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTCdaily56 failed refresheshow we measure this →CSV / JSON
In front todayGoogle
5,453,215 H100eestimated owned compute (median)
- Ahead of second place
- 1.9M
- Held by the top three
- 72%
- Middle of the board
- 2.5M
- Below half the leader
- 4 of 6
Highest 5,453,215 H100eMiddle 2.5M
WHY THIS RANK / VERIFIED SNAPSHOT
Microsoft
For each of seven reviewed corporate owners, select the latest cumulative Epoch record for every represented chip type, then sum component medians and component p5/p95 values. An owner is omitted unless all selected components contain the complete p5/median/p95 bands.
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Some explanation inputs are unavailable Missing: publicFrozenEvidence, comparablePriorRanking.
- Published rank
- #2
- Score
- 3,574,563 H100e
- Sample size
- 10
55% confidence · 38% component coverage · as of May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
SCORE CONSTRUCTION
10/26 evidencedComponent ledger
| Component | Value | Weight | Contribution | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| attribution | Source: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| chipTypes | — | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| componentCount | 8 | Unavailable | 8 | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| componentIntervalAggregation | sum of the latest per-chip-type component percentiles; these bounds are not a recomputed joint distribution | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| confidenceLabel | source_cohort_incomplete | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| epoch AI compute ownership h100e median | 3574563.0000000000 | 100% | 3,574,563 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership h100e p5 | 2689173.0000000000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership h100e p95 | 4770395.0000000000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership power MW median | 2097.5366440000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership power MW p5 | 1573.2989910000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership power MW p95 | 2811.2407930000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership source link count | 0E-10 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership units median | 2345261.0000000000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership units p5 | 1748299.0000000000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| epoch AI compute ownership units p95 | 3169682.0000000000 | 0% | 0 | 1 | available |
| evidence | — | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| incomplete | 1 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| latestRecordModifiedAt | 2026-04-15T22:30:23+00:00 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| manufacturers | — | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| missingIsZero | 0 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| notGpuHours | 1 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| ownershipNotUtilization | 1 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| powerDefinition | accelerator nameplate TDP converted from watts to MW; not facility load or metered consumption | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| rawValue | 3574563.0000000000 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| score | 3574563.0000000000 | Unavailable | — | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
| sourceCount | 0 | Unavailable | 0 | 0 | unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence |
WHY IT MOVED
No rank deltanew since prior snapshot
no_prior_published_snapshot
No component moved since the prior snapshot.
PRIMARY EVIDENCE
10 public recordsSource trail
Estimated owned compute (median)epoch AI compute ownership h100e median · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC3,574,563 H100e55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned compute (5th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership h100e p5 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC2,689,173 H100e55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned compute (95th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership h100e p95 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC4,770,395 H100e55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator power (median)epoch AI compute ownership power MW median · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC2,097.537 MW55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator power (5th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership power MW p5 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC1,573.299 MW55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator power (95th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership power MW p95 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC2,811.241 MW55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Linked source countepoch AI compute ownership source link count · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC0 sources55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator units (median)epoch AI compute ownership units median · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC2,345,261 accelerators55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator units (5th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership units p5 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC1,748,299 accelerators55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
Open primary evidence ↗Estimated owned accelerator units (95th percentile)epoch AI compute ownership units p95 · observed May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC3,169,682 accelerators55% confidence
- Source
- Epoch AI open datasets
- Grade
- A
- Freshness
- fresh
- Locator
{"members":["README.md","cumulative_by_chip_type.csv","cumulative_by_designer.csv","quarters_by_chip_type.csv"],"downloadUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai_chip_owners.zip","releaseDate":"2026-05-12","contentHashKind":"sha256_raw_bytes","documentationUrl":"https://epoch.ai/data/ai-chip-owners","documentationHash":"c51f8f131e2402ce263af38a901374840ec2e7f14978949342df867b3aa75f79","quarterlyRowCount":384,"cumulativeRowCount":515}
Quality flags: epoch_source_cohort_incomplete
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