The Staggering Costs of a Single Data Center, From Land to Chips

What happened: Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. are expected to spend roughly $750 billion on capital expenditures this year alone, per a Bloomberg Businessweek Daily segment on the cost of a single data center. Key numbers: About $750 billion in expected capex from the four companies this year. Why it matters: The scale of the spending is framed as larger than entire national economies and a major share of broad corporate investment, underscoring how much the four firms are committing to data center buildout.

Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. are expected to spend roughly $750 billion on capital expenditures this year alone, per a Bloomberg Businessweek Daily segment on the cost of a single data center.

The scale of the spending is framed as larger than entire national economies and a major share of broad corporate investment, underscoring how much the four firms are committing to data center buildout.