{"id":1023196,"date":"2026-07-24T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023196"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:27:53","slug":"alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-for-big-tech-as-ai-spending-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-for-big-tech-as-ai-spending-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet&#8217;s cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world&#8217;s most profitable companies, and the pain is only expected to increase. <\/p>\n<p>The Google parent burned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, even as the \u200bcloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82% growth. With Alphabet now expected to spend $15 billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, the outlays behind the cash burn will only rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world&#8217;s most profitable companies, and the pain is only expected to increase. The Google parent burned $5.9 billion in the second quarter, even as the \u200bcloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82% growth. With Alphabet now expected to spend $15 billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, the outlays behind the cash burn will only rise.<\/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-1023196","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\/1023196","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=1023196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023227,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023196\/revisions\/1023227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}