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Google passes TSMC relative capex in 2026

user nl

Well-known member
Amazing to see how much capex Google intends to spend in 2026. If we assume Google's revenue growth in 2026 will be equal to Q4-2025 (18%) is has surpassed TSMC capital spend ratio:

Here the overview since 2020. TSMC seems rather modest in capex!

However, Google depreciates some 40% of capex over very long times, as the CFO states:


Anat Ashkenazi
CFO

The question with regards to the CapEx and the kind of what makes up the total that we've announced for this year and last year, approximately 60% of our investment in 2025, and it's gonna be fairly similar in 2026, went towards machines, so the servers, and then 40% is what you refer to as long-duration assets, which is our data centers and networking equipment. And I think you're probably referring to the depreciation delta between them. Those long-term duration asset depreciate over, you know, the building could be 40 years or longer. Other components may be maybe less than that.


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