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<\/a> www.barchart.com Google’s Own Chips May Be the Secret Weapon <\/p>\nGoogle does not have to buy every AI accelerator from Nvidia (NVDA). It has spent years developing its own Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing it to design chips around its specific workloads. <\/p>\n
Kurian said Google’s accelerator business, including TPUs, is already more than twice the size of the next-largest hyperscaler’s accelerator business. He also said Google offers 2.7 times better price performance for AI training and 80% better price performance for inference, compared with the relevant alternatives. <\/p>\n
That helps explain why Google’s enormous capital budget does not necessarily represent an enormous financial burden, despite producing negative free cash flow last quarter for the first time ever. <\/p>\n
If a server pays for itself in less than two years \u2014 and proprietary silicon pays back in roughly one year \u2014 Google can recycle that capital into the next generation of infrastructure much faster than a simple comparison of annual capex suggests. <\/p>\n
The Cloud Numbers Are Already Catching Up <\/p>\n
The financial results provide some evidence that the strategy is working. Alphabet reported $24.77 billion of Google Cloud revenue in the second quarter, up 82% year-over-year (YOY), while its cloud backlog reached $514 billion. Alphabet also said nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies were using Gemini Enterprise. That’s a potent combination \u2014 rapidly expanding revenue today and a massive pool of contracted business ahead. <\/p>\n
Story Continues <\/p>\n
Kurian added that most Google Cloud infrastructure contracts run for about five years. He also said customers committing to $100 of spending typically end up spending more than $150, allowing Google to expand revenue after the initial contract. <\/p>\n
That makes the AI spending cycle more interesting than simply asking whether Google is overspending on servers. The company is building infrastructure, monetizing that infrastructure through cloud customers, and then using proprietary chips to improve the economics. <\/p>\n
The Bottom Line <\/p>\n
Alphabet’s roughly $200 billion capex plan for 2026 looks far less frightening if Google’s AI infrastructure really pays back in under two years \u2014 and its own silicon in roughly one year. <\/p>\n
Granted, Kurian’s figures are company disclosures, not guarantees. AI demand could slow, chip economics could deteriorate, or competitors could close Google’s performance gap. <\/p>\n
Yet, the latest numbers point in the opposite direction. Google Cloud revenue grew 82% in Q2, backlog reached $514 billion, and Google’s custom accelerator business is already more than twice the size of the next-largest hyperscaler’s accelerator business. GOOGL stock trades at roughly 16 times both trailing and forward earnings, with a PEG ratio of less than 1 times. Wall Street maintains a consensus “Strong Buy” rating for GOOGL stock based on 54 analysts with coverage. <\/p>\n
For investors, that makes Alphabet look less like a company simply spending $200 billion on the AI boom and more like one building an AI infrastructure machine designed to pay for itself. Alphabet remains one of the more compelling ways to participate in AI spending without betting entirely on someone else’s chips. <\/p>\n
On the date of publication, Rich Duprey did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. This article was originally published on Barchart.com<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphabet (GOOGL) has been spending at a pace that would make even the most aggressive capital spender blush.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,36959,343,344,133,4859,200774,85,4426,46,125,278156],"class_list":["post-614538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-google","tag-google-cloud","tag-google-offers","tag-il","tag-infrastructure","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-thomas-kurian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}