Amazon unveils $200 billion AI spending plan as shares plunge on investor concerns over returns
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Amazon Boosts Spending Far Ahead of Estimates on AI Build-Out
Amazon.com Inc. said it plans to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips and other equipment, worrying investors the company's colossal bet on artificial intelligence will pinch profits while it waits for investments to pay off. The shares fell in extended trading. The company reported
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AWS to spend $200 billion to double capacity by end of 2027
'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy AWS has an open cash spigot for AI infrastructure, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy telling investors the company has been monetizing compute capacity as fast as it brings it online and it plans to double capacity
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Amazon sees 50% boost to capital spending this year; shares tumble
Feb 5 (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab on Thursday projected a jump of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its Big Tech peers in adding new expenses as they race to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure. It is the latest sign that tech companies will
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Amazon shares sink as it prepares $200bn AI spending blitz
Amazon's shares slumped on Thursday after it announced plans to spend $200bn on capital expenditures in 2026 to scale up its AI infrastructure, roughly a third more than Wall Street had forecast. The Seattle-based tech group said capex would climb more than 50 per cent from nearly $130bn in 2025,
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Why Amazon's CEO is 'confident' with $200 billion spending plan
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York, Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon's stock plunged 11% in extended trading on Thursday, dragged lower by market jitters around the company's $200 billion capex plans, the highest spending forecast among the megacap companies. The
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Amazon plans to spend big on AI but shares slump
Amazon on Thursday joined the other US tech giants in announcing a huge increase in spending on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and infrastructure, which seemed to knock back investors. Reporting on its past year's financial performance, Amazon said it was expecting to spend $200bn this year
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defends $200B spending plan: 'This isn't some sort of quixotic top-line grab'
Amazon Web Services revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than three years, up 24% to $35.6 billion in the fourth quarter, in a sign that demand for artificial intelligence and custom silicon is boosting corporate spending on the cloud. The company disclosed revenue for its in-house data center
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Amazon shares plunge as AI costs climb
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Amazon shares dove more than 11 percent on Thursday as the computing and retail titan reported strong sales but significantly boosted spending estimates. Amazon reported a profit of $21.2 billion on net sales of $213.4 billion in the recently ended quarter as
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Amazon raises AI-driven CapEx spend by 50% this year; Wall Street stays calm - NOT!!!
After the negative reaction to Alphabet's hefty $180 billion in AI infrastructure-driven CapEx spending plans for the coming year, Amazon has gone even further and announced its intent to spend $200 billion more than 50% more than last year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was commendably unapologetic about
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Amazon stock sinks as company projects $200B in spending this year
Amazon plans to spend about $200 billion this year, mostly on artificial intelligence infrastructure, a forecast that sent its share price down as much as 10% in extended hours trading on Thursday. The Seattle-based tech giant disclosed its plans to boost capital expenditures in an earnings report
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Amazon Plans Its Own Big Boost In AI Spending. The Stock Is Tumbling.
CEO Andy Jassy said that the company expects a "strong long-term return" on its investments. Amazon has big AI spending plans. That isn't helping its stock. Shares of the e-commerce and cloud giant tumbled over 7% in extended trading Thursday after the company missed quarterly earnings estimates
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Amazon shares crash over 11% after-market hours. What triggered the sell-off in FAANG stock
Amazon's stock fell more than 11% in after-hours trading after the company said it would raise capital spending by nearly 60% to about $200 billion this year, sparking investor concerns over rising AI-related costs. The decline came despite strong fourth-quarter results, with revenue rising 14% to
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Amazon Unleashes $200 Billion AI 'War Chest' To Dominate Cloud, Custom Chips - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Capex Surge and Strategic Investments This year, Seattle-based Amazon plans to ramp up its capex to a staggering $200 billion. That's a $70 billion increase year-over-year. This move is largely attributed to the enhancement of its AWS infrastructure and AI capabilities, Anmuth noted. Such
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Amazon unveils massive investment push on AI the day after Bezos guts The Washington Post
Amazon says it plans to spend around $200 billion on capital investments in 2026, largely focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud infrastructure, as it reported quarterly revenue of $213 billion on Thursday. The announcement came just one day after the Washington Post, owned by
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The Market Sours on Amazon's Eye-Popping $200 Billion Investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Here's Why It Could Pay Off. | The Motley Fool
Amazon (AMZN 1.18%) demonstrated strong growth in the 2025 fourth quarter, as reported last week. Sales increased 12% year over year, beating analyst estimates, although earnings per share (EPS) of $1.95 missed expectations of $1.97. However, the big talk after the report was management's
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Amazon projects 50% boost to capital spending this year to $200 billion, shares tumble - The Economic Times
It is the latest sign that Big Tech will not be hitting the brakes any time soon on hefty AI investments. Amazon shares closed down 4.4% during regular trading as worries deepened about the enormous cost of the artificial-intelligence boom.Amazon on Thursday projected a surge of more than 50% in
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Amazon targets $200B in capital expenditures for AWS and signals rapid AI-driven growth through 2026 (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Earnings Call Insights: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Q4 2025 Management View * CEO Andrew Jassy outlined a "strong growth" quarter with reported revenue of $213.4 billion, operating income of $25 billion, and trailing 12-month free cash flow of $11.2 billion. Jassy highlighted, "We're seeing strong
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Amazon Defends Massive AI Spending, Says New AWS Capacity Being Monetized Quickly: Andy Jassy Sees Very 'Unusual' Opportunity - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
On Thursday, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) pushed back against Wall Street's growing skepticism over soaring AI-related capital expenditures. Amazon Pushes Back On AI CapEx Concerns During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Amazon addressed investor concerns around its aggressive
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Amazon shares tumble as $200B AI spending spree rattles investors
Amazon on Thursday projected a surge of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its peers in a spending spree to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and sending its shares down 9% in after-hours trading. It is the latest sign that Big Tech will not be hitting the
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Amazon sees 50% boost to capital spending this year; shares tumble
Feb 5 (Reuters) - Amazon.com on Thursday projected a jump of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its Big Tech peers in adding new expenses as they race to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure. It is the latest sign that tech companies will not be hitting the brakes
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Amazon announced plans to spend $200 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, a 50% jump from last year's $131 billion and far exceeding Wall Street's $150 billion estimate. The massive capital expenditure sparked investor concerns about profitability, sending shares down as much as 11% in after-hours trading despite strong AWS revenue growth of 24%.
Amazon Commits $200 Billion to AI Infrastructure Build-Out
Amazon revealed plans to invest $200 billion in capital expenditure across 2026, marking a dramatic escalation in the company's Amazon AI ambitions that sent shockwaves through financial markets
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. The $200 billion spending plan represents a more than 50% increase from the roughly $131 billion Amazon spent on property and equipment in 2025, and significantly exceeds the $150 billion analysts had anticipated for this year3
. CEO Andy Jassy emphasized the company's focus on AI infrastructure, stating that investments would target data centers, chips, robotics, and low Earth orbit satellites, with most funds directed toward Amazon Web Services1
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The announcement triggered a sharp market reaction, with shares tumble as much as 11% in after-hours trading before settling around 7% down
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. Investors expressed concern that AI-driven investments are growing faster than returns, particularly as Amazon's first-quarter operating income forecast of $16.5 billion to $21.5 billion fell below the $22.04 billion analysts expected3
. The stock plunge reflects broader market anxiety about whether soaring AI spending across Big Tech will deliver commensurate financial returns.AWS Revenue Growth Signals Strong Demand for AI Workloads
Despite investor concerns, Amazon Web Services demonstrated robust performance in the fourth quarter, with revenue growth of 24% reaching $35.6 billion
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. This marked AWS's fastest growth in 13 quarters and pushed the cloud unit's annualized run rate to $142 billion, up substantially from $80 billion in 20222
. AWS generated $128.7 billion in sales for the full year, representing 20% year-over-year growth, while maintaining impressive 35% operating margins2
.Andy Jassy emphasized that demand for AI compute capacity continues to outpace supply, telling investors that AWS could grow even faster if it had sufficient infrastructure. "As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it," Jassy explained on the earnings call
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. The company added 3.9 gigawatts of power capacity in the last 12 months—twice what it had in 2022—and plans to double capacity again by the end of 2027 to meet surging demand for AI workloads2
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Custom AI Chips and Strategic Partnerships Drive Competitive Edge
A key component of Amazon's strategy involves its custom AI chips, particularly the Trainium accelerators and Graviton CPUs, which are already delivering an annualized revenue run rate of $10 billion with triple-digit year-over-year growth
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. The company's Trainium2 chips power Project Rainier, linking more than 500,000 chips into what Jassy called the world's largest operational AI compute cluster, primarily used by Anthropic to train its Claude chatbot models3
.Trainium3 chips are already in market with full supply expected to be committed to workloads by mid-2026, while Trainium4 will arrive in 2027 offering six times the compute performance and four times the memory bandwidth of Trainium3
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. Jassy noted that Trainium delivers 30% to 40% better price performance than comparable GPUs, making it highly attractive to customers seeking to expand data center capacity cost-effectively2
. AWS also maintains a $244 billion backlog of cloud computing contracts, up from $200 billion in the previous quarter4
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Big Tech AI Arms Race Intensifies as Wall Street Demands Returns
Amazon's aggressive capital expenditure positions it at the forefront of an escalating AI arms race among tech giants. Google parent Alphabet Inc. announced plans to spend up to $185 billion in 2026, while Microsoft and Meta are also ramping up investments substantially
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. The top four hyperscalers—Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta—are collectively expected to spend more than $500 billion this year on processors, data centers, and networking equipment3
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However, investors have sent a clear message that soaring AI spending can continue only if companies demonstrate commensurate operational or financial returns
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. When JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth pressed Jassy about "financial guardrails" on spending, the CEO declined to mention specific protections, instead reiterating plans to "invest aggressively"2
. "I think this is an extraordinarily unusual opportunity to forever change the size of AWS and Amazon as a whole," Jassy told investors, expressing confidence that the investments would yield strong returns on invested capital2
.Gil Luria, analyst at DA Davidson & Co., captured the market's concern: "Much like Microsoft, investors are concerned that investments are growing faster than returns, and that Amazon, Google and Microsoft are locked in an escalating build-out that may not work out for all of them"
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. The coming quarters will reveal whether Amazon's massive bet on AI infrastructure translates into the sustained revenue growth and profitability that investors demand.References
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