capital expenditure

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...

Amazon’s recent pullback has reignited a familiar debate: is Amazon falling behind in the race to monetize generative AI — or is the company quietly laying the groundwork to reclaim momentum? Investor jitters about AWS’s cloud revenue growth and Microsoft’s head start with OpenAI have pressured...

Microsoft’s latest financials and the automated Benzinga snapshot together paint a deceptively simple headline: a software giant with unmatched scale, excellent profitability, and a premium valuation on sales — yet one that faces meaningful execution and regulatory risks as it doubles down on AI...

Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...

The market’s obsession with a tight cluster of AI-exposed mega-cap stocks has shifted from curiosity to conviction, and in the latest earnings cycle that conviction was tested — sometimes rewarded, sometimes exposed — as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla produced results that crystallize both...

Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure. Background By the...

Microsoft’s most recent financial and strategic moves have simultaneously captivated its investor base and seeded fresh doubts among more contrarian market voices. While the tech titan’s past decade has been a showcase of transformative growth—driven by cloud expansion, enterprise software...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long been synonymous with cloud computing supremacy, its sprawling ecosystem encompassing everything from raw infrastructure to developer-centric tools. For much of the past decade, AWS was the indispensable engine beneath the digital transformation efforts of...

Microsoft’s unprecedented run of cloud growth is beginning to show its limits, and nowhere is this more evident than in the numbers behind the company’s relentless datacenter expansion and massive capital expenditures. Over the last year, Microsoft has poured resources into building out its...

Microsoft’s performance among the so-called “Magnificent Seven” stocks over the past year has been a topic of considerable analysis, especially as it was the only stock in this elite group to have lagged the S&P 500 in 2023. However, recent fiscal results, particularly for its fiscal Q3 2024...

Here's a summary of the key points from the Fierce Network article, "No, Microsoft isn't abandoning its data center growth plan" (May 1, 2025): Recent media reports suggested Microsoft was slowing or pausing its data center projects. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella clarified during the company's...

Persistent claims about an impending data center “bust” among hyperscale cloud providers have created a narrative of overcapacity and faltering momentum within the tech industry. Yet a thorough examination of capital expenditure plans, earnings call disclosures, and executive statements from the...

Microsoft stands at the forefront of a rapidly shifting technology landscape, with artificial intelligence reshaping business priorities from top to bottom. As the company’s data center expansion enters a new strategic phase, Microsoft’s approach to capital expenditure, AI services, and its...