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The article focuses on Wall Street's reaction to massive capital expenditures by major AI companies like Google and Meta, highlighting the financial strain caused by scaling data centers without commensurate revenue growth. This analysis directly addresses the economic sustainability of current large-scale model training and infrastructure buildouts within the artificial intelligence sector.

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AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

The VergeJuly 28, 20264 min read

Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously forecast as its top end spending. Now, look, I recognize that there's an impulse to say things like "What's $15 billion between friends?" but from an investor's perspective, Google has essentially said that it can't accurately forecast its costs, which is a scary thing. Plus, Google is spending more money than it's making. And Google … Read the full story at The Verge.

It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion — from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range — $195 billion — is much more than the company had previously forecast as its top end spending. Now, look, I recognize that there’s an impulse to say things like “What’s…

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