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Alphabet's aggressive capital expenditure strategy highlights a critical industry bottleneck where massive compute demand is outpacing supply, forcing significant financial strain and reshaping investor expectations for AI infrastructure returns. The confirmation of sustained high spending underscores that the current buildout phase is far from its peak, with enterprise and government adoption driving continued capacity constraints across the sector.

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Alphabet president Ruth Porat on how Google is funding AI to win long term, and the biggest risks ahead

FortuneOctober 13, 20264 min read

Google is spending about $200 billion on its AI build-out this year, Porat confirmed at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on Monday, and the peak is still around the corner.

Alphabet is spending roughly $200 billion this year to build out its AI capacity, and the company’s president and chief investment officer reiterated Google’s plan next year for the bill to be even more substantial. Alphabet expects capital expenditures (capex) to “increase significantly” next year, Ruth Porat said Monday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif., adding that the company remains “capacity constrained” as demand for compute grows. “The demand for compute—because of the value that our partners are seeing in the enterprise,…

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