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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company…

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/alphabet-goes-cash-flow-negative-for-the-first-time-as-ai-capex-doubles-to-44-9-billion-in-a-single-quarter
The Google TPU 8i and 8t chipsTom's HardwareGoogle goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company banks big on TPUsThe company raised its 2026 spending guidance to as much as $205 billion and quadrupled its inventory to $10 billion.
Echo Dot@echodot@feddit.uk

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

Why don’t they get the current AI that they already have to work out how to optimize itself so that they don’t need to consume all of the oceans on the planet in order to run it?

Also maybe don’t give me a summary of every email I receive unless I explicitly ask for it, thst should save them couple of hundred billion tokens.

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