Sundar Pichai, Executive Director of Google and Alphabet Inc., speaks at the inaugural forum for business, government and society 2024. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford, California on April 3, 2024.
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Alphabet Executive director Sundar Pichai said that the company plans another major year of spending because it still creates its offer of artificial intelligence.
“We are convinced in the possibilities that are ahead and accelerate our progress, we expect to invest around $ 75 billion in the USD capital expenditure in 2025,” Pichai said on Tuesday in a statement to make money, announcing an investment plan.
The Capex figure has arrived in front of a consensitive estimate of $ 59.73 billion for Google, Lidible Alpha states.
On the invitation of earnings, Alphabet said he expects to come to $ 16 billion to $ 18 billion in the first quarter. Generally, expenditures will go to “Technical Infrastructure, primarily for the servers, followed by data centers and networking,” said Finance Chief Anat Ashkenazi.
The announcement of the alphabet has arrived with a A Mixed Earning Report on Early In the Fourth Quarter. The shares fell by 8% after the company surpassed the Wall Street earnings for 2 cents per share, but they fell for revenue expectations.
Alphabet and its rivals Megacap Tech rush to build their data centers with the next -generation AI infrastructure, full of Nvidia graphic units for processing or GPU. Last month, Target He said he plans to invest $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion this year as part of his AI pressure. Microsoft He committed $ 80 billion in capital expenditures associated with AI in his current fiscal year.
The recent rise of Chinese Deepseek Open Code models has led to some concerns about whether companies need to invest in their construction. These fears ran financial markets early last week, guessing a sale that contributed The worst one -day loss of market value for a company in history.
Many technology directors have drawn attention to the Chinese startup and its consequences on tools based in the US. Executive Director Microsoft Satya Nadella said Deepseek shows “real innovation”, while executive director Palantar Alex Karp said CNBC last week This competitive AI models means that now they need “effort in everything” to develop technology faster.
In addition to buying infrastructure, Alphabet said he expects the number of number 2025. “In key investment areas such as AI and Cloud.”
