Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon Have Accumulated Nearly $1.5 Trillion in AI Infrastructure Purchase Commitments
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Reporting on August 14, 2026 tallies close to $1.5 trillion in accumulated purchase commitments for AI infrastructure across Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and peers — contractual obligations, not announced intentions. Read alongside the same day's Noreva forecast of natural gas tripling, the commitment stack assumes power costs that a tighter gas market would invalidate. Single-aggregator sourcing for the combined figure; the underlying commitments appear individually in the companies' filings.