{"id":219301,"date":"2025-08-02T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/big-techs-big-bet-on-ai-driving-344-billion-in-spend-this-year"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:13:24","slug":"big-techs-big-bet-on-ai-driving-344-billion-in-spend-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/big-techs-big-bet-on-ai-driving-344-billion-in-spend-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech\u2019s Big Bet on AI Driving $344 Billion in Spend This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-techs-big-bet-on-ai-driving-344-billion-in-spend-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s any lesson to take from the spending plans issued by the world\u2019s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it\u2019s to never underestimate the fear of missing out.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Corp., which set a $24.2 billion capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-30\/microsoft-s-quarterly-cloud-sales-profit-exceeded-expectations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">spending record<\/a> last quarter, plans to drop upwards of $30 billion in the current period. <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc. similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-31\/amazon-projects-profit-that-underwhelms-on-expense-of-ai-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">spent<\/a> $31.4 billion last quarter, almost double what it dropped a year ago, and is maintaining that level of investment. Google owner Alphabet Inc. raised its capital expenditures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-23\/alphabet-slips-after-boosting-guidance-for-capital-expenditures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">guidance<\/a> this year to $85 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s any lesson to take from the spending plans issued by the world\u2019s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it\u2019s to never underestimate the fear of missing out. Microsoft Corp., which set a $24.2 billion capital spending record last quarter, plans to drop upwards of $30 billion in the current period. Amazon.com [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}