{"id":1023442,"date":"2026-07-24T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023442"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:13:52","slug":"why-is-google-spending-up-to-205-billion-on-ai-inside-alphabets-biggest-investment-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/why-is-google-spending-up-to-205-billion-on-ai-inside-alphabets-biggest-investment-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Google spending up to $205 billion on AI? Inside Alphabet&#8217;s biggest investment yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet has increased its AI spending plan for 2026. It now expects to spend between $195 billion and $205 billion, up from its earlier estimate of $180-$190 billion and up from as much as $190 billion previously. This is the biggest capital spending plan in Alphabet&#8217;s history. The midpoint of the new forecast is $200 billion, showing how serious the company is about winning the AI race.<\/p>\n<p>The money will mainly go into building more AI infrastructure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet has increased its AI spending plan for 2026. It now expects to spend between $195 billion and $205 billion, up from its earlier estimate of $180-$190 billion and up from as much as $190 billion previously. This is the biggest capital spending plan in Alphabet&#8217;s history. The midpoint of the new forecast is $200 billion, showing how serious the company is about winning the AI race. The money will mainly go into building more AI infrastructure.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023442","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=1023442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023443,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023442\/revisions\/1023443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}