{"id":1011455,"date":"2026-06-02T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011455"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:57:41","slug":"google-parent-alphabet-to-raise-80-bn-to-fuel-ai-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/google-parent-alphabet-to-raise-80-bn-to-fuel-ai-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google parent Alphabet to raise $80 bn to fuel AI expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as part of the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The fundraising comes as Alphabet ramps up investment spending, with capital expenditures expected to reach $180-$190 billion in 2026 and set to rise further in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>The move reflects a broader spending race gripping the technology industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as part of the deal. The fundraising comes as Alphabet ramps up investment spending, with capital expenditures expected to reach $180-$190 billion in 2026 and set to rise further in 2027. The move reflects a broader spending race gripping the technology industry.<\/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-1011455","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\/1011455","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=1011455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011465,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011455\/revisions\/1011465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}