{"id":21820,"date":"2025-02-08T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2025-02-08T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:26:35","slug":"big-tech-keeps-its-a-i-data-center-spending-boom-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21820","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Data Center Spending Boom Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech\u2019s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.<\/p>\n

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Wall Street went into panic mode<\/a> about two weeks ago after the Chinese start-up DeepSeek released an artificial intelligence system<\/a> that appeared to be radically more efficient than what its American competitors had built.<\/p>\n

The investors who had pumped trillions of dollars into tech stocks over the last few years worried whether the tens of billions of dollars that tech companies were spending on new data centers suddenly looked like comic overkill.<\/p>\n

But the biggest tech companies made clear in recent earnings reports that they believe there may be no such thing as overkill when it comes to new data centers.<\/p>\n

Amazon implied<\/a> on Thursday that its capital expenditures \u2014 a figure that includes data center construction and other items like warehouses \u2014 could top $100 billion this year. Microsoft said<\/a> its spending could surpass $80 billion. Alphabet said it would spend $75 billion, and Meta reaffirmed plans<\/a> to have capital spending hit as much as $65 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Combined, they could spend roughly $100 billion more than last year on these projects.<\/p>\n

Executives urged patience. The problem right now, they said, is that customers want more A.I. than the companies can supply. And the only way they can meet demand is to build as much as they can as quickly as they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I see someone else do something better, I say, \u2018Ugh, we should have done that,\u2019\u201d Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, told employees at a companywide meeting last week, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times. \u201cCompetition is good,\u201d he added, \u201cbut we need to make sure that we win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech\u2019s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.Wall Street went into panic mode about two weeks ago after the Chinese start-up DeepSeek released an artificial intelligence system that appeared to be radically more efficient than what its American competitors had built.The investors who had pumped trillions of dollars into tech stocks over the last few years worried whether the tens of billions of dollars that tech companies were spending on new data centers suddenly looked like comic overkill.But the biggest tech companies made clear in recent earnings reports that they believe there may be no such thing as overkill when it comes to new data centers.Amazon implied on Thursday that its capital expenditures \u2014 a figure that includes data center construction and other items like warehouses \u2014 could top $100 billion this year. Microsoft said its spending could surpass $80 billion. Alphabet said it would spend $75 billion, and Meta reaffirmed plans to have capital spending hit as much as $65 billion.Combined, they could spend roughly $100 billion more than last year on these projects.Executives urged patience. The problem right now, they said, is that customers want more A.I. than the companies can supply. And the only way they can meet demand is to build as much as they can as quickly as they can.\u201cWhenever I see someone else do something better, I say, \u2018Ugh, we should have done that,\u2019\u201d Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, told employees at a companywide meeting last week, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times. \u201cCompetition is good,\u201d he added, \u201cbut we need to make sure that we win.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21822,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21823,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions\/21823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}