**Amazon surpassed Alphabet’s record spending commitment by announcing $200 billion in planned capital expenditures for 2026**, intensifying the infrastructure race among Big Tech companies competing for dominance in AI computing.[3] The four largest US tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are collectively forecast to spend approximately $650 billion on AI-related infrastructure in 2026, a spending surge without parallel this century that is straining energy supplies and reshaping economic activity across the nation.[3]

References:
1. https://techstartups.com/2026/02/05/top-tech-news-today-february-5-2026/
2. https://www.golocalprov.com/news/5-big-news-stories-overnight-friday-february-6-2026
3. https://economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-plans-to-spend-about-650-billion-on-ai-computing-in-2026/articleshow/127966887.cms
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7Eoh5uhec
5. https://bucknellian.net/138282/news/tech-news-02-06/