AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

What happened

According to The Verge’s linked report, AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous, It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously […] Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate , to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously forecast as its top end spending. Now, look, I recognize that there’s an impulse to say things like “What’s $15 billion between friends?” but from an investor’s perspective, Goog

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Source

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