Caterpillar Falls 4% as AI Data Center Power Trade Unwinds

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Caterpillar shares fell 4% to $783.15 on Monday, leading industrial names lower, while Deere rose 1% to $684.25 and Paccar was little changed at $121.99. The split is explained by Caterpillar being the only one of the three with a large power generation business tied to AI data center construction, a segment whose sales to users grew 72% in Q2 2026. No company-specific announcement sat behind the decline; the backdrop was a weekend policy exchange in which Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on frontier AI companies to slow the pace of model capability improvements and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed, pushing selling across AI infrastructure names. Caterpillar CEO Joe Creed said on the August earnings call that "we haven't seen any customers back off of demand," and the company's backlog reached $72 billion at quarter-end, with orders already being taken into 2029 and 2030. The Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF fell 2% versus a 0.4% drop for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, making Caterpillar the weight rather than a passenger in the selloff.

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Caterpillar fell 4% as the AI data center power trade unwound, with its power generation segment tied to AI data center construction at risk if frontier AI companies slow model capability improvements.

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AnthropicPrivate▼ Negative
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on frontier AI companies to slow the pace of model capability improvements, triggering the AI infrastructure selloff.

OpenAIPrivate▼ Negative
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with calls to slow the pace of model capability improvements, which pushed selling across AI infrastructure names.

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