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The $690 billion cloud spending spree

Every quarter, I look at the capital expenditure numbers coming out of the major cloud providers, and every quarter, they manage to surprise me. This time, though, we’ve crossed into territory that’s genuinely hard to process. The five biggest US cloud and AI infrastructure providers (Microsoft, Al…

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  1. 2026-10-16 09:00 · InfoWorld AI
    The $690 billion cloud spending spree

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