3 AI Infrastructure Stocks for Investors Watching Cloudflare Stock and Data Center Demand

Anthropic’s blockbuster IPO plans, with a potential US$1.4 trillion valuation and large AI compute commitments, put a hard spotlight on the cloud and data center companies powering this race. Capital is flowing toward the infrastructure behind AI, and having the right or wrong exposures could matter more than any single headline. This article explains how the Anthropic news connects to 3 specific stocks from our screener that appear positively exposed to this shift.

The three stocks highlighted below are just a sample from this theme, and the full screen surfaced 94 more listed companies with equally compelling infrastructure stories that are not covered in this article.

If you want to move beyond a short list and start sizing up the broader field for your own portfolio, head straight into the Global AI-Driven Cloud & Data Center Providers screener to identify, filter and analyze the AI cloud and data center players that best fit your criteria.

Nokia Oyj (HLSE:NOKIA)

Nokia Oyj builds the mobile, fixed, and cloud networking gear that helps carry AI era traffic between data centers and users. This is why the analyst consensus Narrative on Simply Wall St focuses so much on its role in high capacity optical and IP networking for AI and cloud workloads.

Nokia Oyj provides mobile, fixed, and cloud network solutions worldwide and licenses related intellectual property, with €8.7b reported from Network Infrastructure and €12.1b of segment adjustments, and the stock valued at about €41.6b today.

"Strong demand from hyperscalers and AI focused data centers, along with continued U.S. and European infrastructure programs, is now visible in Nokia Oyj’s AI & Cloud net sales more than doubling year on year to €446 million and orders reaching €2.8b in Q2 2026."

What happens to margins if a single supply chain pressure tightens just as that AI related demand runs through the order book?

If that pressure hits just as AI traffic ramps up, read the full narrative for Nokia Oyj to see how Nokia Oyj’s pricing power, contracts and balance sheet could respond.

Cloudflare (NET)

Cloudflare sits squarely in this screener’s sweet spot, running the security, network and edge-compute fabric that lets AI-heavy applications reach users. According to DaneDruss, an investor in the Simply Wall St Community, its role in securing that traffic may be just as important as raw compute.

"Cloudflare sits closer to the trust-chain side: internet security, network protection, identity, traffic, certificates, and enterprise infrastructure."

What could really change the story is how one unresolved shift in AI-driven traffic mix affects the balance between usage growth and future profitability.

That traffic mix question is exactly where the full narrative for Cloudflare lays out how Cloudflare could convert security demand into accelerating scale and higher quality earnings power.

Accton Technology (TWSE:2345)

Accton Technology builds the networking hardware behind high performance cloud and data center infrastructure, with its Computer Networks division generating about NT$310.6b and supporting AI heavy workloads. The Taiwan listed group, valued around NT$785.3b, sells this equipment worldwide to carriers, enterprises, and hyperscale customers.

Accton Technology provides focused exposure to the switches, fabrics and edge gear that keep AI data centers operating, supported by earnings growth, solid profitability and a P/E around 24.3x. A key factor to monitor is how future AI driven capex cycles could affect pricing power and cash conversion if a single key assumption changes.

Those capex swings could be critical, so read the 4 key rewards and 2 important warning signs (1 is major!) to see how Accton Technology’s AI exposure might amplify both potential upside and pressure points.

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