Google pours billions into AI, cyber and infrastructure expansion

The tech giant’s cloud profits more than doubled year over year as it invested more than $17 billion, primarily in servers and data centers.

Dive Brief:

• Google continued to ratchet up spending on technical infrastructure to meet growing demand for cloud compute services during the first three months of the year. The tech giant reported capital expenditures of $17.2 billion, primarily in servers and data centers to support consumer and enterprise products, cloud services and AI research, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said during a Q1 2025 earnings call Thursday.
• The company plans to increase capital expenditures by more than 40% to roughly $75 billion this year, compared to $52.5 billion in 2024. “We exited the year in cloud specifically with more customer demand than we had capacity and that was the case this quarter as well,” Ashkenazi said. “We want to make sure we ramp up to support ...