{"id":824478,"date":"2026-07-26T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:30:19","slug":"google-burns-through-us5-9-billion-in-cash-as-ai-spending-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824478\/","title":{"rendered":"Google burns through $US5.9 billion in cash as AI spending soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco | Google burned through cash in the second quarter for the first time since going public decades ago as gargantuan artificial intelligence infrastructure spending has transformed it from an asset-light business into a capital-intensive one.<\/p>\n<p>The company said free cash flow for the three-month period to end June turned to minus $US5.9 billion ($8.4 billion), much lower than analysts had expected, as it again upped its spending forecast for data centres and other AI hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco | Google burned through cash in the second quarter for the first time since going public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-824478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}