Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc. speaks. , In the Business, Government and Society Forum in 2024 opening at the College of Graduate Studies in Stanford, Stanford, California, on April 3, 2024.
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alphabet The CEO of Sundar Pichai said that the company plans another year of spending as it continues to build artificial intelligence.
“We are confident of the upcoming opportunities and accelerate our progress, we expect that we will invest about 75 billion dollars of capital expenditures in 2025,” Bichai said in the issuance of profits on Tuesday.
CAPEX number came before an estimated consensus of $ 59.73 billion for Google, according to Visible Alpha.
Based on her profit call, Alphabet said she expects to come from 16 billion dollars to $ 18 billion from those expenses in the first quarter. In general, expenditures will go to “technical infrastructure, primarily for servers, followed by data and network centers,” said the head of finance Anat Ashkenazi.
The advertisement of the alphabet came alongside a Report of the fourth quarter of the mixed quarter. The shares decreased by 8 % after the company topped the Wall Street profits by two years per share, but it outperformed revenue expectations.
Alphabet and its competitors for huge technology are rushing in building their data centers through the infrastructure from the next generation, packed with Nafidia Graphics processing units, or graphics processing units. Last month, Dead She said she was planning to invest $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion this year as part of the payment of artificial intelligence. Microsoft She adhered to $ 80 billion in capital expenses related to Amnesty International in its current financial year.
The last rise of the Dibsic models in open source China has led to some concerns about whether companies need to invest significantly in their construction. These fears shook financial markets at early last week, which sparked a sale that contributed to The worst loss of the market value for one day For a company in history.
Many technology executives have drew attention to the start of Chinese operation and their effects on the tools based on the United States. The CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella said Deepseek offers “real innovations”, while the CEO of Palantir Alex Karp. Tell CNBC last week Competitive artificial intelligence models mean that the United States needs an “effort for all countries” to develop technology faster.
In addition to infrastructure purchases, Alphabet said it expects growth in the number of employees in 2025 “in the major investment fields such as artificial intelligence and cloud.”
