Google's AI Budget Surpasses Expectations as Capacity Constraints Limit Growth

Alphabet (GOOG) is increasing its capital expenditures due to high demand for Google Cloud services, particularly in the AI sector. Despite a $462 billion backlog of customer orders and internal GPU competition from engineers using AI tools, the company has raised its full-year capex forecast to $180 billion.

By Rich Duprey Fri, July 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM GMT+3 4 min read · Yahoo Finance ·

Google's AI Budget Surpasses Expectations as Capacity Constraints Limit Growth

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Topics: AI capacity constraints Google Cloud infrastructure spending

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