Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (Financial Times)
Big Tech’s AI infrastructure spending has reached trillion-dollar scale, signaling sustained data center and compute investment through 2026.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260731/p2#a260731p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/dcf3873e-7b32-4a24-a90d-3bccf1d2c996">Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year</a></b></span> — Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have vastly increased their investments since the AI boom began in 2023</p>
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