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$750 Billion in AI CapEx: Who Eats First — The Hyperscaler Hierarchy, Neo Cloud Risk, and Enterprise SaaS Under Pressure
Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta just collectively committed to over $750 billion in capital expenditure for 2026. They spent $130 billion in a single quarter. That is a 70% increase from what these companies spent in 2025 — and the spending is still accelerating into the second half of the year.
The ROI is showing up. Operating margins are expanding across all four businesses. Google Cloud grew 63% year over year. AWS grew 28%. Microsoft Intelligent Cloud grew 29%. Meta grew revenue 33%. This is not speculative infrastructure spending anymore. These are some of the most profitable…
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