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The $700 Billion Bet Wall Street Just Stopped Believing
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle collectively plan $660–$690 billion in AI infrastructure capex for 2026, yet in July all four companies reporting quarterly results fell on the day despite beating headline metrics. Against that spend, direct AI services generate roughly $25 billion in revenue—a 25:1 ratio that bond and equity markets are now treating as structural risk, not a bridgeable gap. Wall Street has stopped awarding a premium for announced ambition and is demanding contracted margin instead.
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