{"id":990553,"date":"2026-02-07T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990553"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:47:17","slug":"amazon-sees-50-boost-to-capital-spending-this-year-shares-tumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/amazon-sees-50-boost-to-capital-spending-this-year-shares-tumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sees 50% boost to capital spending this year, shares tumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon on Thursday projected a surge of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its peers in a spending spree to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and sending its shares down 11.5% in after-hours trading. <\/p>\n<p>As the shares sputtered on news that Amazon would be pumping $200 billion into boosting its AI efforts in 2026, CEO Andy Jassy struck a defensive tone during the company&#8217;s call with investors, a contrast to the more self-assured Alphabet executives on Wednesday as Google showed resilience in developing AI software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon on Thursday projected a surge of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its peers in a spending spree to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and sending its shares down 11.5% in after-hours trading. As the shares sputtered on news that Amazon would be pumping $200 billion into boosting its AI efforts in 2026, CEO Andy Jassy struck a defensive tone during the company&#8217;s call with investors, a contrast to the more self-assured Alphabet executives on Wednesday as Google showed resilience in developing AI software.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990553","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=990553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}