{"id":1012504,"date":"2026-06-05T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012504"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:54:47","slug":"googles-ai-race-gets-costlier-as-alphabet-upsizes-equity-raise-to-84-75-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/googles-ai-race-gets-costlier-as-alphabet-upsizes-equity-raise-to-84-75-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s AI race gets costlier as Alphabet upsizes equity raise to $84.75 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent Alphabet has increased its planned equity raise to approximately $84.75 billion, up from the $80 billion it had announced just a couple of days ago. Notably, the tech giant is looking for a capital infusion in order to meet the massive infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Reuters report citing a 2 June filing, Alphabet now plans to raise $18 billion through the sale of Class A and Class C shares and a further $16.75 billion through depositary shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent Alphabet has increased its planned equity raise to approximately $84.75 billion, up from the $80 billion it had announced just a couple of days ago. Notably, the tech giant is looking for a capital infusion in order to meet the massive infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence. According to a Reuters report citing a 2 June filing, Alphabet now plans to raise $18 billion through the sale of Class A and Class C shares and a further $16.75 billion through depositary shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012504","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012505,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012504\/revisions\/1012505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}