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Meta's most recently reported quarterly purchases of property and equipment reached $33.94 billion
The figure is the 'purchases of property and equipment' line in Meta's cash-flow statement, updated each time Meta files a quarterly report. Meta says the spending goes on servers, data centres and network infrastructure.
Verified 2026-10-22
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Meta's spending on equipment and buildings is a direct read on how much it is putting into AI.
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- $634.14
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- -12.90%
- AI share of revenue
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- While Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and Oracle have all sharply increased AI capital spending, Apple's cash paid for property, plant and equipment in the nine months to 27 June 2026 actually fell, to Apple's nine-month capex of $6.8 billion, down 28% from $9.47 billion a year earlier
- A Brookings Papers draft by Columbia's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh projects that the US AI build-out of 2025 to 2032 will absorb, every year, 3.63% of GDP, versus 2.24% for the railroads of 1870–1890
- Global private investment in AI reached $344.7 billion in 2025, up 127.5% year-over-year, with generative AI companies alone capturing $170.9 billion of that total
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