Anthropic has agreed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years, securing custom TPU capacity and tying itself to one of the biggest AI infrastructure contracts on record. The deal represents more than 40% of Google Cloud’s disclosed revenue backlog, lifts Alphabet shares, and signals the growing shift toward agentic AI systems that need massive compute to scale.
AI startup Anthropic plans to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years, a move expected to sharply expand Google’s revenue backlog. The company is also lining up computing capacity from Broadcom and Amazon, while Google ramps up investment to deepen its partnership with Anthropic as the AI infrastructure race intensifies.
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Alphabet’s latest quarter shows AI reshaping cloud: Google Cloud revenue jumped about 63% on surging enterprise demand, lifting overall revenue and profits. The company signals a bigger push on capital expenditure to expand AI infrastructure. Separately, energy engineering firm Kimbal Pvt Ltd secured a $22 million Series B led by GEF Capital Partners to scale smart grid and metering tech.
Alphabet’s cloud business is accelerating faster than Amazon and Microsoft, with Google’s AI tools increasingly driving demand. Meanwhile, Big Tech’s AI spending is set to exceed $700 billion this year, as companies race to build the infrastructure behind next-gen models. Investors are watching the link between AI investment and cloud growth closely.
Alphabet kicked off 2026 with an 81% jump in Q1 net profit to $62.6 billion as revenue rose 22% to $109.9 billion. Google Cloud grew 63% to $20 billion, driven by enterprise AI solutions and Gemini adoption. With compute “constrained,” Alphabet plans bigger investments and raised 2026 capex guidance to $180–$190 billion.
Google Cloud has crossed $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, driven by accelerating AI-related workloads. Yet the company warns that the pace of growth was held back by capacity constraints, implying it may have delivered even higher revenue if more infrastructure had been available. Investors are watching how quickly Google can expand resources to meet demand.
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Alphabet’s cloud unit delivered a major upside, with revenue jumping 63% to $20 billion and beating estimates as enterprises splurged on AI infrastructure. The company’s overall results also topped forecasts, aided by a near-doubling cloud backlog. Analysts point to Gemini momentum and Apple partnership as Alphabet pushes deeper into the AI race.
Tata Steel and Google Cloud say they’ve scaled agentic AI across the company in just nine months, deploying 300+ specialised AI agents. The rollout spans employee-facing tools, back-office automation, and manufacturing safety—using platforms like Zen AI, a Digital Assistant, and shop-floor “Safety EyeQ” for real-time alerts—cutting routine ticket resolution and customer response times.
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