$165.1B
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta spent $165.1 billion on property and equipment from April to June 2026, up 87% from $88.2 billion a year earlier.
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How We Use AISources checked October 24, 2026
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What organizations spend on AI, in dollars and in tokens, and who reports it.
Spend and tokens
How much are big tech companies spending on AI data centers?
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta spent $165.1 billion on property and equipment from April to June 2026, up 87% in a year.
Spend and tokens
How much will the world spend on AI in 2026?
Gartner forecasts $2.67 trillion, more than half of it for infrastructure.
EstimateSpend and tokens
Do companies that pay for AI actually use it?
55.9% of businesses on Ramp paid for AI in September 2026; 24.6% of US businesses told the Census Bureau they had used it in the past two weeks.
Spend and tokens
Who sells AI at work, and for how much?
List prices and the commercial results each seller has published.
$165.1B
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta spent $165.1 billion on property and equipment from April to June 2026, up 87% from $88.2 billion a year earlier.
$2.67T
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending of $2.67 trillion in 2026, up from $1.79 trillion in 2025.
55.9%
55.9% of US businesses on Ramp paid for AI in September 2026, while 24.6% of US businesses told the Census Bureau they had used AI in the survey period ending October 18, 2026.
Right: Gartner's 2026 forecast by category, drawn to scale. Left: three measured flows, shown as figures only. They cover different periods and populations, so they don't add up to the forecast and aren't part of it.
$376.1BFour-company capex, calendar 2025
$85.0BUS data center construction, annual rate, Aug 2026
$102BVenture funding to AI startups, Jul to Sep 2026
Google said at I/O in May 2026 that it was processing more than 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month across its products, up from about 480 trillion a year earlier.
Among businesses on Ramp, the blended price of OpenAI and Anthropic tokens was $0.64 per million in the week ending October 11, 2026, down 25.4% from $0.86 four weeks earlier, while total token spending rose 23.0%.
In that week Anthropic took 60.1% of token spending on Ramp and OpenAI 36.4%.
Token counts and token prices aren't comparable across companies: each counts tokens its own way. For what checking agents' work adds to the bill, see How much will companies spend checking AI agents' work?
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