{"slug": "google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons", "title": "Google Ups Capex Guidance to At Least $180B as AI Spending Balloons", "summary": "Alphabet reported Q2 revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year-over-year and beating analyst estimates of $116.9 billion, driven by a 82% surge in Google Cloud revenue to $24.8 billion from enterprise AI solutions. The company raised its capital expenditure guidance to at least $180 billion for the year as AI spending balloons, with earnings per share of $9.11, a 294% increase from a year ago.", "body_md": "**The numbers**\n\n**$119.8 billion: **Alphabet’s Q2 revenue, up 24% year-over-year (YoY), and outpacing analyst projections of $116.9 billion.\n\n**$94.5 billion: **Revenues from Google Services, which includes advertising, subscriptions, digital content, and hardware, up 15% YoY.\n\n**$24.8 billion: **Google Cloud revenue, up 82% YoY thanks to its enterprise AI solutions and enterprise AI infrastructure businesses, and above analyst estimates of $22.46 billion.\n\n**34%:** Alphabet’s operating margin, up 2%.\n\n**$9.11: **Earnings per share, representing a 294% increase over the same period last year.\n\n**22 billion: **Number of API tokens processed per minute by Gemini.\n\n**950 million: **Monthly active users of the Gemini app.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons", "canonical_source": "https://www.adweek.com/media/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons/", "published_at": "2026-07-22 18:58:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 23:24:18.433207+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Alphabet", "Google Cloud", "Gemini"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ups-capex-guidance-to-at-least-180b-as-ai-spending-balloons.jsonld"}}