{"id":79219,"date":"2026-02-06T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/890076098"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:36:11","slug":"a-new-gilded-age-big-tech-goes-on-a-600-billion-ai-spending-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/a-new-gilded-age-big-tech-goes-on-a-600-billion-ai-spending-splurge\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-page-grid\">\n<section id=\"post-body\" class=\"post-body grid-area-post-body\" data-component-type=\"post-body\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" data-lock-content>\n<div class=\"post-hero\" data-component-type=\"post-hero\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\">\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image as-notched\" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% \/ (3000 \/ 2038))\">  <img data-opt-id=758893364  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.insider.com\/69862b76a645d1188188dba1?width=700&ssl=1\" alt=\"Google CEO Sundar Pichai.\"> <\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"image-source-caption with-caption-drawer\"> <span class=\"image-source-caption-drawer\"><figcaption class=\"image-caption label-md-strong\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\"> <span class=\"image-caption-text\">Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I\/O 2017 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 17, 2017, in Mountain View, California.<\/span> <span class=\"image-source-text\"> <span class=\"image-source label-md g-test\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\">Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/span> <\/figcaption><\/span> <\/span><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"underline\">\n<div class=\"timestamp label-md\" data-component-type=\"timestamp\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-summary-bullets\" data-component-type=\"post-summary-bullets\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" data-track-marfeel=\"post-summary-bullets\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"body-md\">Tech companies&#8217; projections on data center spending stole the show in recent earnings announcements.<\/li>\n<li class=\"body-md\">It ushers in a new era of the AI age, with massive private-sector infrastructure spending.<\/li>\n<li class=\"body-md\">Amazon alone plans for $200 billion in capital expenditures, a more than 50% escalation from 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<section class=\"post-body-content post-story-body-content\" data-component-type=\"post-body-content\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" data-track-content data-post-type=\"story\" data-track-marfeel=\"post-body-content\">\n<p>Big Tech is taking the AI age to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>When Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta announced earnings recently, one set of numbers stole the show: The massive projections for data center spending this year.<\/p>\n<p>Though the industry&#8217;s <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wall-street-reacts-microsoft-meta-capex-raise-2026-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>capital expenditures<\/a> \u2014 spending on property and equipment \u2014 have ramped up in recent years, 2026 is shaping up to be leaps and bounds ahead of any private-sector infrastructure spending in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>The projections draw comparisons to previous transformational eras, such as the Gilded Age of the late 1800s and the Information Age of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Wall Street questions whether it will bring a return on investment \u2014 and investors are starting to get antsy. 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expectations, and they were less than impressed \u2014 despite&nbsp;<a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-report-q4-earnings-call-amzn-stock-live-updates-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>Amazon&#8217;s 14% revenue growth<\/a>&nbsp;for the quarter compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s stock dropped as much as 10% after the bell on Thursday, and was down 8% on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>With spending this extreme, a beat on earnings should be &#8220;table-stakes,&#8221; Bernstein&#8217;s Shmulik wrote Thursday night in a research note that dripped with sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to peg the share price to 2026 CapEx, maybe Amazon should have guided even higher, Shmulik wrote. &#8220;Why not at this point?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"833e4c40-c7a2-4770-989e-3aa81a6d5a7d\" data-toc-id=\"833e4c40-c7a2-4770-989e-3aa81a6d5a7d\"><strong>Google doubled its budget for the second year in a row<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Google parent <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-q4-2025-earnings-alphabet-capex-projected-to-double-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>Alphabet stunned investors<\/a> on Wednesday when it said it is planning $175 billion to $185 billion in capex for 2026, doubling its budget for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Google, which trails behind Amazon and Microsoft in cloud services, has dramatically increased its spending as demand for its Gemini AI models grows. <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-q4-2025-earnings-ai-spending-gemini-subscriptions-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>Gemini has surpassed<\/a> 750 million monthly active users, the company said on its fourth-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s stock was down about 2% Friday morning as investors digested Big Tech&#8217;s big spending plans for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>One thing Google has going for it is the growing enthusiasm for Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe these investments are rational, given its fast-growing backlog, supporting our view that Alphabet is among the best positioned to emerge as one of the leading, if not the leading, AI platform,&#8221; BNP Paribas analyst Nick Jones wrote Thursday in a research note.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"7bd31692-42bd-485c-88b0-6d7503ee6f12\" data-toc-id=\"7bd31692-42bd-485c-88b0-6d7503ee6f12\"><strong>Meta seemed to get a pass from investors \u2014 at first<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Like its Big Tech peers, Meta will up the ante on AI investment in 2026. It was the only company that seemed to get a pass from investors this earnings season \u2014 at first, that is.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-q4-2025-earnings-ai-investments-capex-2026-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>Meta said last week<\/a> it is planning $115 billion to $135 billion in capex, close to doubling its spend from last year. Meta&#8217;s stock surged 8% on January 29, the morning after its fourth-quarter earnings call. Investors were pleased with the social media giant&#8217;s strong advertising business, which reported $58.14 billion in ad revenue that quarter. What&#8217;s more, it saw gains from its advertising <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-q4-2025-earnings-mark-zuckerberg-ai-gradual-growth-2026-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>AI tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, enthusiasm has waned, and the stock has been on a downward slope this week.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"c378ec0f-99bd-4c62-92fc-1a45bee1c028\" data-toc-id=\"c378ec0f-99bd-4c62-92fc-1a45bee1c028\"><strong>Microsoft has a massive bet on OpenAI<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft reported $37.5 billion in capex for the second quarter of its fiscal 2026. While the company hasn&#8217;t released full-year capex guidance, S&amp;P last week estimated the figure could be around $97.7 billion, with some analysts projecting slightly more.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s cloud business heavily <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-openai-azure-cloud-computing-backlog-2026-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel>depends on OpenAI<\/a>. The ChatGPT-maker represents 45% of its backlog, meaning Microsoft&#8217;s future cloud revenue largely depends on it. The company&#8217;s stock fell 12% on January 29, the morning after it reported earnings last week \u2014 Microsoft&#8217;s biggest decline since March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Investors seemed pleased with the 17% jump in total revenue, including a 39% spike in revenue from Azure and other cloud services.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p> <!-- Included desktop \"post-aside\" --> <\/p>\n<section class=\"post-aside grid-area-post-aside\" data-component-type=\"post-aside\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\">\n<aside class=\"rail with-default-image has-video-ad \" id=\"l-rightrail\" data-component-type=\"rail\">\n<section data-rail data-track-page-area=\"RR\" class>\n<div class=\"rail-container container-0\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"rail-container video-ad-container\">\n<div class=\"post-recommended-video\" data-component-type=\"post-recommended-video\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\">\n<h3 class=\"header display-xs\">Recommended video<\/h3>\n<div id=\"jw-strategy-player\" class=\"ad psuedo-ad\" data-bi-ad>\n<div id=\"player-container-XqOVG7Ek\" data-component-type=\"jw-strategy-video\" data-placement=\"XqOVG7Ek\" class=\"jw-strategy-video\" data-rid=\"5942348214\" data-id=\"U3UyJF8V\" data-name=\"undefined\" data-title=\"What are the real-life consequences of AI?\" data-timestamp=\"undefined\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-mute=\"true\" data-pub-id=\"5046\" data-slot-id=\"video-preroll-1\" data-player-url=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/libraries\/P0a1LFN5.js\" data-region=\"pre-roll-rail\" data-ad-unit-path=\"4442842\/businessinsider.desktop\/post\/pre-roll-rail\/tech\" data-pre-roll=\"true\" data-is-override=\"true\" data-thumbnail=\"[object Object]\" data-placementid=\"XqOVG7Ek\" data-reactions=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"rail-container\"> <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"post-bottom grid-area-post-bottom\" data-component-type=\"post-bottom\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" data-track-marfeel=\"post-bottom\">\n<section class=\"post-bottom-ad-container\"> <\/section>\n<section class=\"post-bottom-taboola\" data-track-page-area=\"Post Bottom\"> <!-- Included desktop \"taboola\" -->  <\/p>\n<section class=\"taboola-container targeted-recommended only-desktop taboola-below-main-column\" id=\"taboola-below-main-column\" data-e2e-name=\"taboola-below-main-column\" data-track-event-label=\"rec-taboola-taboola-below-main-column\"> <\/section>\n<p>  <!-- Excluded mobile \"taboola\" --><\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"pw-modal-entry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw-modal-backdrop\"><\/div>\n<div data-component-type=\"paywall\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" data-content-selector=\"[data-content-container]\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12\"> <\/div>\n<p>  .component.back-to-home.style-loading { display: none; }  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big <span class=\"match\">Tech<\/span> is taking the AI age &#8230; largest estimated budget among Big <span class=\"match\">Tech<\/span> companies. 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