Michael Dell has become one of the biggest winners of 2026. The 61-year-old billionaire has added $83.5 billion to his fortune this year, taking his net worth to $223 billion and making him the world\u2019s sixth-richest person. The company\u2019s shares have climbed 240%, while demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure has powered rapid growth in a business that sells everything from GPUs and memory to networking, cooling and storage. Dell, who owns roughly 40% of the company, has benefited enormously from that rise. <\/p>\n
But as his company rides the AI wave, another development has put the usually low-profile billionaire in an unfamiliar position that is close to the centre of Washington\u2019s political light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Michael Dell has become one of the biggest winners of 2026. The 61-year-old billionaire has added $83.5 billion to his fortune this year, taking his net worth to $223 billion and making him the world\u2019s sixth-richest person. The company\u2019s shares have climbed 240%, while demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure has powered rapid growth in a business that sells everything from GPUs and memory to networking, cooling and storage. Dell, who owns roughly 40% of the company, has benefited enormously from that rise. But as his company rides the AI wave, another development has put the usually low-profile billionaire in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021052,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021034\/revisions\/1021052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}