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capital expenditure

NOUN
fixed asset expense
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Amazon has said it plans to spend $220 billion on capital expenditure this year, almost double what it spent in 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Elevated capital expenditure and operating costs related to artificial-intelligence infrastructure are also weighing on earnings, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They see AI investment changing from a tailwind for S&P 500 earnings of 11 percentage points this year to a “marginal drag” in 2028 as capital expenditure growth slows and depreciation costs loom.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Moves to scale up its AI ecosystem and a shift in capital expenditure toward computing infrastructure point to a faster expansion of its AI business in the medium term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

For this reason it is quite impossible that all the expenditure on the mine should be charged into working costs, particularly some items that arise through "capital expenditure."

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover


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