{"id":1000614,"date":"2026-04-02T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000614"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:53:46","slug":"big-techs-635-billion-ai-spending-faces-energy-shock-test-sp-global-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/big-techs-635-billion-ai-spending-faces-energy-shock-test-sp-global-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech&#8217;s $635 billion AI spending faces energy shock test, S&amp;P Global says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa Otto, head of research at S&amp;P Global Visible Alpha. <\/p>\n<p>Before the Iran war broke out, \u200ctech giants \u2060Microsoft, Amazon, \u2060Alphaband Meta planned to spend about $635 billion on data centres, chips, and other AI infrastructure in 2026, S&amp;P Global has said. <\/p>\n<p>That figure was up from $383 billion the prior year and just $80 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa Otto, head of research at S&amp;P Global Visible Alpha. Before the Iran war broke out, \u200ctech giants \u2060Microsoft, Amazon, \u2060Alphaband Meta planned to spend about $635 billion on data centres, chips, and other AI infrastructure in 2026, S&amp;P Global has said. That figure was up from $383 billion the prior year and just $80 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}