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From: Paul H. Christiansen10/30/2018 9:37:22 AM
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Cloud Giants Continue Pouring Billions Into Data Centers

Even though there are indications that overall cloud data center spend may be slowing down, the biggest cloud providers continue spending billions to expand their platforms’ physical scale.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet all reported their earnings for the quarter ended September 30 this week, and all three said they invested a ton of money in data centers during the quarter. They don’t report the exact amounts they spend on data centers – usually lumping that number with spending on other things – but it’s safe to say that data centers represent the bulk of the bucket they're in.

While it’s advantageous for these companies to send a message to customers that they’re willing to spend big on infrastructure to support them, it’s not advantageous to say exactly how much they’re spending. That’s more information than any of the players in the cloud arms race likes the others to have.

But we can get at least an approximate idea of the level of data center spend from what they do disclose. Google’s parent Alphabet, for example, spent close to $5.6 billion on “production equipment, data center construction, and facilities” during the quarter, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said on an earnings call Thursday. That’s up from $3.6 billion spent on the same things during the same period last year.

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