{"id":990701,"date":"2026-02-09T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990701"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:03:33","slug":"big-techs-600-billion-spending-plans-exacerbate-investors-ai-headache-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/big-techs-600-billion-spending-plans-exacerbate-investors-ai-headache-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech&#8217;s $600 billion spending plans exacerbate investors&#8217; AI headache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/LONDON: A planned $600 billion artificial intelligence spending splurge by big tech firms in 2026 is \u2060adding to investor unease as they assess the implications for profitability as well as a potential existential threat to software firms. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of Amazon, which had announced a $200 billion capital expenditure outlay, slid 7% on Friday, while Alphabet lost 3% after the company said on Wednesday that capital spending could double this year. Meta Platforms was down \u200c1.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/LONDON: A planned $600 billion artificial intelligence spending splurge by big tech firms in 2026 is \u2060adding to investor unease as they assess the implications for profitability as well as a potential existential threat to software firms. Shares of Amazon, which had announced a $200 billion capital expenditure outlay, slid 7% on Friday, while Alphabet lost 3% after the company said on Wednesday that capital spending could double this year. Meta Platforms was down \u200c1.3%.<\/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-990701","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\/990701","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=990701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}