Even Googles $120 billion earnings couldn’t out-pace its AI spend
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Raising 2026 AI capex guidance to $205B and going negative on free cash flow puts a hard number on how expensive this arms race is. If you're a heavy cloud customer, assume sustained pricing pressure and start modeling multi-cloud or workload-specific alternatives now.
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