Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on buildings and equipment in Q3 2026, up 114% in a year.
Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on buildings, servers and equipment in Q3 2026. A year earlier, in Q3 2025, it spent $24.0 billion. This is capital spending: the cash paid for property and equipment. The quarter comes from Alphabet's earnings release, filed with the SEC on Oct 28, 2026. We use it only because the release's figure for a year earlier matches Alphabet's SEC filing to the million. The quarterly report (10-Q) comes later.
Five quarters of Alphabet's capital spending: the cash it paid for buildings, servers and equipment. The gold bar is the quarter just reported. The cream bar is the same quarter a year earlier. On the right is what Alphabet says it expects to spend for the full year, as stated in its own release, next to its previous plan.
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Source: SEC EDGAR, Alphabet 8-K earnings release filed Oct 28, 2026 (10-Q pending) and earlier 10-Q/10-K cash flow statements. Every number on the chart is computed from the source data in the same run that drew it. The Signal is research, not investment advice. How we work · Disclosures