Alphabet & Tesla Raise CapEx: What the Next AI Wave Means for Investors

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Alphabet emerging as an AI leader despite CapEx fears; Tesla’s earnings miss and negative cash flow; data center buildout and associated political and social risks for investors.

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David Wagner lays out a tidy tension: Alphabet is spending into an AI-led cloud advance even as investors fret over rising capital expenditures (CapEx), while Tesla posted an earnings miss and negative cash flow that complicates its longer-term AI ambitions. The discussion matters because both moves are not bookkeeping quirks, they are choices about where to deploy cash into data center buildout, chips, and software, choices that will determine who wins the next chapter of AI and who simply pays the bill. He also flags political and social risks that could turn infrastructure bets into regulatory or geopolitical headaches.