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Meta Could Spend $145 Billion This Year Due to AI
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Meta Could Spend $145 Billion This Year Due to AI

Gizmodo·Ece Yildirim·about 1 month ago
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Wednesday was a big day for the tech industry with Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all reporting earnings at the same time in the afternoon. Out of the four, though, Meta was the clear loser with its shares down more than 7% even though revenue increased 33% this past quarter, the company’s fastest since 2021. It’s probably because the company upped its already outrageous spending expectations for the year. Meta said that 2026 capital expenditures would be at least $10 billion more than expected and could top $145 billion. While emphasizing his “confidence in this investment,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that most of this increase was due to “higher component costs, particularly memory pricing.” The AI boom has led to an unprecedented data center buildout that has constrained the global memory chip supply and increased prices for these valuable chips.…

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