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Amazon's Big Spending Plans and Bitcoin's Rebound

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow take a look at shares of Amazon dropping after announcing plans to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips, and other equipment. Plus, Bitcoin rebounded after plummeting on Thursday and nearing the $60,000 level, and the CEOs of Roblox, Affirm, and Warner Music Group break down their companies' earnings.

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0:00.0

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News.

0:11.7

Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast, with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovelow in San Francisco.

0:22.4

This is Bloomberg Tech coming up Amazon shares drop after announcing plans to spend $200 billion

0:28.8

this year on data centers, chips and other equipment.

0:32.8

Meanwhile, Bitcoin rebounds, having plummeted on Thursday when it neared the $60,000 level.

0:39.3

And we break down more tech earnings with the CEOs of Roblox, Affirm and the Warner Music Group.

0:45.3

But first, we check in on what is a tentative bounceback after what has been a punishing week.

0:51.3

Remember, the NASDAQ is on track for its worst week, Ed, in three months since the beginning of November. But now we see a little bit of a reprieve, a little bit of dip buying. We're up a percentage point if you're looking at the big indexes. And I know you're going to drill into the individual movers that push and pull. But crypto, up almost 9%. But only about eradicating half of yesterday's losses.

1:12.2

We're still only at 68,000.

1:14.0

What a remarkable beginning to the year for this asset class

1:17.3

that in many ways people feel there's not a store of value.

1:20.3

But what are you looking at?

1:21.7

The analysts are calling it sticker shock.

1:24.4

Amazon pledging to spend $200 billion capital expenditures on AI infrastructure.

1:30.9

The stock down more than 8% right now on track for its biggest drop since April of last year.

1:36.9

Operating income in the current period, $21 billion at the high end below consensus.

1:42.4

So the concern is, is the trade- off worth it here? There is a big

1:45.7

backlog for AWS and AI business. By the way, it's one of the few names on the NASDAQ 100

1:51.3

that's down because in reaction to that capital expenditures pledge, you see everyone from the

1:56.3

GPU providers, Nvidia's now up more than 6% in response, memory names, infrastructure names,

2:02.3

energy names, all higher because the capital expenditures for all of the hyperscalers and

2:07.1

aggregate plus meta is growing.

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