Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet enter a closely watched earnings week with investors looking for evidence that rapidly rising cloud demand can justify the exceptional sums being committed to artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The immediate reports are not expected to settle the economic value of generative AI, but they should offer a more concrete test of demand, capacity constraints and the pressure that capital spending can place on cash generation.
A Reuters earnings preview published by Euronext said the companies are expected to show accelerating cloud growth. It also put their combined backlog at nearly $1.7 trillion and said they plan to spend as much as $600 billion this year. Those are Reuters-reported estimates, rather than figures independently disclosed as a single group by the companies, but they frame the issue confronting shareholders: whether contracted demand and incremental cloud revenue are advancing quickly enough to support the financing burden of an AI…
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