{"id":971726,"date":"2025-11-04T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971726"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:09:41","slug":"sundar-pichais-big-bet-begins-to-pay-off-and-youtube-may-soon-fall-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/04\/sundar-pichais-big-bet-begins-to-pay-off-and-youtube-may-soon-fall-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundar Pichai\u2019s big bet begins to pay off, and YouTube may soon fall behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once seen as a distant third in the cloud wars, Google Cloud has quietly become one of Alphabet\u2019s fastest-growing businesses, fuelled by the AI boom and CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s long-term vision. What was once considered a costly experiment is now threatening to overtake YouTube as Alphabet\u2019s second-largest revenue engine after Search.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet reported $15 billion in cloud revenue for the third quarter of 2025, up 34% year-on-year, driven by demand for AI infrastructure, data centres and Google\u2019s in-house Gemini AI model. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once seen as a distant third in the cloud wars, Google Cloud has quietly become one of Alphabet\u2019s fastest-growing businesses, fuelled by the AI boom and CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s long-term vision. What was once considered a costly experiment is now threatening to overtake YouTube as Alphabet\u2019s second-largest revenue engine after Search. Alphabet reported $15 billion in cloud revenue for the third quarter of 2025, up 34% year-on-year, driven by demand for AI infrastructure, data centres and Google\u2019s in-house Gemini AI model.<\/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-971726","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\/971726","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=971726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}