AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
Cath VirginiaElizabeth LopattoCloseElizabeth LopattoPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Elizabeth Lopatto is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion — from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion.
- ▪Cath VirginiaElizabeth LopattoCloseElizabeth LopattoPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Elizabeth Lopatto is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavi
- ▪She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor.
- ▪Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion — from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 bill
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