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META · Hyperscalers
It has told the market it will spend up to $145 billion this year to support its AI efforts, and has never disclosed a single dollar of AI revenue.
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Meta (META): $69.69bn of capex, and no AI revenue line at all
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Meta publishes no AI revenue figure. Here is what it publishes instead
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Meta's sales rose 22%. Its free cash flow fell 15%
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Meta spent $69,690,000,000 last year. On what, it will not say
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