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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
TL;DR
- Google Cloud revenue spiked 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion, exceeding Wall Street expectations.
- Enterprise AI solutions and infrastructure adoption are major drivers of cloud gains.
- Alphabet's total profit reached $112.1 billion, a significant increase from the previous year.
- Overall revenue grew 24% year-over-year to $119.8 billion.
- Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, now has 950 million monthly active users.
- The company's cloud contracting backlog climbed to $514 billion.
- Alphabet's capital expenditures are estimated between $180 billion and $190 billion for the year.
- CEO Sundar Pichai is confident in the payoff of AI investments, citing strong demand indicators.