TNB Tech Minute: Google Plans to Issue $80 Billion in Equity to Finance AI Ambitions
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
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| 0:28.5 | Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, June 2nd. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Imani Mouise for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.0 | Google Parent Alphabet has announced a plan to issue $80 billion in equity to fund its AI capital expenditures. |
| 0:42.6 | The company said Berkshire Hathaway will buy $10 billion worth of the stock, |
| 0:46.7 | deepening one of Warren Buffett's holding companies' few big tech investments. |
| 0:51.4 | Alphabet plans to issue the remaining $70 billion by various means this year. |
| 0:56.6 | The proceeds will be used to finance data center expansion and secure computing capacity needed to train and run AI models. |
| 0:58.9 | Earlier this year, Alphabet said that its 2026 capital expenditures were expected to be |
| 1:03.9 | as much as $190 billion. |
| 1:07.0 | And it expects to spend even more next year. |
| 1:10.0 | European chipmaker, ST Microelectronics, has raised its data center revenue target, |
| 1:14.8 | as demand for AI infrastructure continues to explode. |
| 1:18.4 | The company which counts Apple and SpaceX among its customers |
| 1:21.3 | says it now expects data center revenue to come in at about $1 billion this year, |
| 1:26.5 | up from its previous forecast of above $500 |
| 1:28.9 | million. |
| 1:30.5 | STM microelectronics says that its data center revenue could double in 2027, assuming current |
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