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The bill for Google’s AI spending spree is coming due.<\/p>\n

Google said Wednesday that its free cash flow for the second quarter turned to negative $5.9 billion, as the company’s capital expenditures continue to rise.<\/p>\n

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It marks the first time the company has reported negative free cash flow in decades, per AlphaSense, a signal of how much money Google is spending on AI data centers and hardware.<\/p>\n

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta had already planned to spend more than $700 billion in capex<\/u> this year, and that number only seems to be ticking up.<\/p>\n

Google said it now expects to spend $195 billion to $205 billion in capex for full-year 2026, up from its previous estimate of $180 billion to $190 billion.<\/p>\n

Anat Ashkenazi, Google’s chief financial officer, said the company expects capex spend to increase “significantly” in 2027.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, Tesla reported negative cash flow for the first time in more than two years, as Elon Musk’s company also ramps up spending on AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

There’s also a question about how far these dollars actually stretch compared to a year ago. Some analysts reckon there’s inflation due to higher costs of memory chips and other materials, which make it more expensive to build out capacity.<\/p>\n

All things considered, investors probably expect Google’s cash flow to remain in the red for quite some time \u2014 even as the company continues to report strong revenue gains.<\/p>\n

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