+ $GOOG just delivered the Cloud print that pushes the AI infra trade even harder.
• Google Cloud revenue $30.7B (+103% YoY), beat.
• Cloud operating income $11.1B (beat), ~36% margin.
• CapEx $51.4B (~40% of revenue).
Sundar Pichai: Cloud grew 103% powered by huge demand for AI infrastructure and AI solutions, with strong TPU demand. First-party model APIs now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute (4x a year ago).
Together with $MSFT’s Azure +48%, the signal is clear: demand is still outrunning supply and the capacity build is intensifying. Direct fuel for power, photonics/CPO, and the rest of the AI infra complex.
We are long and bullish AI Infra!
$MSFT didn’t just keep the AI trade alive. It just pushed it even harder.
• Revenue $92.3B (+19% YoY, beat).
• Adj. EPS $4.89 (+18% YoY, beat).
• Azure $33.2B +48% YoY (ex-FX +48% vs ~45% est) — accelerating hard.
• Microsoft Cloud $63.9B (+30% YoY).
• CapEx $39.4B (~43% of revenue) — the buildout is running full speed.
• Operating income +21% > revenue growth → operating leverage intact.
Azure accelerating at this scale means demand is still outrunning supply. Every print like this forces more capacity, more power, more photonics/CPO, and more interconnects.
This is the AI infrastructure spend cycle intensifying.
Commercial RPO came in light vs estimates, but the growth engines (Azure + Cloud) more than offset it.
Next up: $GOOG. If Google Cloud and CapEx confirm the same story, the AI infra trade gets even hotter.