Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft plan combined AI-related capital expenditures of approximately $320 billion in 2025, compared to $230 billion in 2024: a 39 percent year-over-year increase. Amazon leads with $100 billion, followed by Microsoft ($80 billion), Alphabet ($75 billion), and Meta ($60-65 billion). Despite questions raised by China's DeepSeek emergence and margin pressure on cloud divisions, all four CEOs have signaled that spending levels will persist through 2025, framing it as essential to competitive positioning and long-term shareholder returns. For financial institutions, this signals that hyperscaler capex intensity is not moderating even as near-term cloud revenue guidance has disappointed relative to expectations.
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