Google (GOOG) spent $842 million on infrastructure in Q1 2008, its largest capital expenditures (CAPEX) ever for a single quarter, according to Data Center Knowledge. The record capex investment will acceleration increase Google's need to generate...
here is the last five quarters of Google's re-spiraling CapEx . Paul's capital expenditures (CapEx) comment came pre-call just after Google announced earnings results to the media (and the world): Google CapEx in Context.
First, this is a business that has scale economics in a few key areas; scale economics in search and ad serving and scale economics and the capital needed to support these areas, CapEx for data centers, servers and infrastructure.