During 2025, multinational companies announced foreign direct investment projects worth more than US$1.3 trillion, which represented a year-on-year increase of 2.2%.
According to him fDi 2026 reportwhich focuses on capital commitments for start-up projects and excludes mergers, acquisitions and intercompany financing, the world’s top ten investors concentrated more than a quarter of the total amount allocated to infrastructure, energy and technology.
The semiconductor company tsmc recorded the largest volume of global investment by allocating US$100 billion to expand its operations in Arizona, USA. This expansion contemplates the acceleration of production in the Phoenix area, with a projection of generating more than 18,000 jobs. The project in the United States responds to a strategy initiated in 2020 with US$12 billion to diversify the global chip supply chain, a volume of capital that progressively rose to reach accumulated commitments of US$265 billion.
The technology sector concentrated half of the positions in the ranking of the main global investors. In addition to first place tsmcthe signature ByteDance It ranked second by projecting investments of US$45.1 billion, driven mainly by a US$40 billion plan for a data center in Brazil with the expectation of generating 5,000 direct jobs.
Other technology corporations with notable capital records abroad were Alphabetwith US$25.1 billion, including a commitment of more than US$5 billion for a data center in its division Cloud in Belgium, Microsoftwith US$17.7 billion, and Micron Technologywith US$16.6 billion. Together, technology firms led capital flows aimed at processing capacity and digital infrastructure.
The financial and fund management sector registered relevant participation with the Emirati company MGX background Managementwhich ranked third globally with US$43.4 billion focused on technology and artificial intelligencehighlighting the construction of a data center campus in France. In fourth position was the Canadian Brookfield Asset Management, with a projected capital expenditure of US$28.2 billion.
The list of the ten largest foreign investors of 2025 was completed with the real estate firm Damac Holding of the United Arab Emirates with US$ 24.6 billion, the Spanish public services company Iberdrola with US$24.3 billion and the Australian energy company Woodside Energy with US$17.5 billion.
