AI infrastructure capex has crossed from strategic investment into arms race. Amazon's FY 2025 10-K records $128.3 billion in capital expenditures — up 65% in a single year. Alphabet spent $91.4 billion, up 74%. Meta committed $115-135 billion for 2026 before a dollar has been spent. Reading all five filings together reveals three structural patterns investors are still underestimating: the spending is accelerating, not plateauing; Microsoft's reported margins already show the cost compression that peers only discuss in the future tense; and NVIDIA's own 10-K names the same data centers and power grids that hyperscalers are racing to build as the binding constraint on its revenue growth — completing a self-reinforcing cycle that no single filing captures alone.
The $650B AI capex headline is real — three of four hyperscalers filed specific guidance with the SEC. But the filings reveal what the headlines miss: Meta's actual infrastructure commitment is ~$250B (not $125B), three of four face negative free cash flow at guided levels, and none disclosed ROI timelines for the largest corporate infrastructure bet in history.
Alphabet reported $132.2 billion in net income for FY2025 — a record. But the 10-K reveals $149.1 billion in contractually locked purchase commitments, $24.1 billion in unrealized equity gains inflating headline growth, and a tax timing benefit that boosted cash flow by $13.5 billion. Adjusted earnings grew 15.6%, not 32%, and free cash flow was flat. The investment question: can Google Cloud's 956-basis-point margin expansion convert the largest corporate infrastructure buildout in history into returns?
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