{"id":1022981,"date":"2026-07-23T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022981"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:18:14","slug":"ai-investment-boom-puts-big-techs-free-cash-flow-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/ai-investment-boom-puts-big-techs-free-cash-flow-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"AI investment boom puts Big Tech&#8217;s free cash flow under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. hyperscalers are starting to show returns on their artificial intelligence investments, but the rising cost of the buildout is taking a bite out of their free cash flow, and investors are noticing. <\/p>\n<p>At their current trajectory, the so-called &#8220;hyperscalers&#8221; &#8212; Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle &#8212; are expected to spend more combined on capital expenditures than they generate in free cash flow by 2027, according to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. hyperscalers are starting to show returns on their artificial intelligence investments, but the rising cost of the buildout is taking a bite out of their free cash flow, and investors are noticing. At their current trajectory, the so-called &#8220;hyperscalers&#8221; &#8212; Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Oracle &#8212; are expected to spend more combined on capital expenditures than they generate in free cash flow by 2027, according to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates.<\/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-1022981","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\/1022981","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=1022981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023005,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022981\/revisions\/1023005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}