Alphabet shares slip after Q1 results as company lifts full-year capex outlook to $195 billion–$205 billion
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Alphabet's Q1 beat showed strong AI and cloud demand, but after-hours weakness followed a higher full-year capex outlook, reinforcing concerns about longer AI payback periods. Commentary that compute supply lags demand and that Alphabet is leasing third-party data center capacity highlights infrastructure bottlenecks (power and deployment timelines) rather than demand softness. Near term, this frames a mixed read-through for Alphabet while supporting data center capacity providers.
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Alphabet reported Q1 revenue of $119.8 billion, beating expectations, but its shares fell in after-hours trading after management raised its full-year capital spending forecast to $195 billion–$205 billion. The higher capex plan fueled concerns that returns on the company’s AI investments could take longer to materialize. Analysts said Alphabet’s computing capacity is lagging customer demand, pushing the company to lease more third-party data center capacity from providers such as Digital Realty and Equinix. That stance has been read as a constructive signal for specialized data center REITs.
