{"id":990753,"date":"2026-02-09T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990753"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:07:25","slug":"google-amazon-meta-microsoft-ai-spending-in-2026-nearly-matches-indias-entire-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/google-amazon-meta-microsoft-ai-spending-in-2026-nearly-matches-indias-entire-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft AI spending in 2026 nearly matches India\u2019s entire national budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2026 is becoming important for the global tech industry not because of a new gadget, but because of how much money companies are spending on artificial intelligence (AI). According to Bloomberg, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft together are expected to spend around $650 billion on AI this year. This amount is almost equal to what India plans to spend on running the entire country in its 2026\u201327 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2026 is becoming important for the global tech industry not because of a new gadget, but because of how much money companies are spending on artificial intelligence (AI). According to Bloomberg, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft together are expected to spend around $650 billion on AI this year. This amount is almost equal to what India plans to spend on running the entire country in its 2026\u201327 budget.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990753","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=990753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}