4 of the Magnificent Seven (Magazine 7) tech giants are nonetheless on monitor to satisfy their large synthetic intelligence (AI) spending targets this 12 months, in keeping with their earnings report.
The businesses which have reported quarterly earnings post-market on Wednesday are Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META) and Amazon (AMZ), with a mixed market cap of roughly $12 trillion.
Beforehand, an evaluation by Bridgewater Associates flagged that the 4 firms are anticipated to spend roughly $650 billion collectively on AI infrastructure in 2026. Whereas most of them did not escape their AI spending of their newest earnings, they appear on monitor to proceed their spending spree within the sector.
The funding has important implications for the digital asset sector, significantly for bitcoin miners, who’re more and more pivoting away from mining towards internet hosting computer systems for AI as a part of their income diversification technique. The bitcoin miners have already got information facilities prepared and powered as much as host an enormous quantity of machines which can be wanted for AI computing. Going through a margin squeeze from decrease bitcoin costs and elevated competitors, miners have began lending their information facilities to AI companies to diversify their income streams.
AI-linked bitcoin mining shares with publicity to hyperscaler infrastructure offers embrace IREN (IREN), which was down about 0.3%, TeraWulf (WULF) and Cipher Digital (CIFR), which fell 0.5%. In the meantime, following the outcomes, Microsoft was down over about 2.4% in after-hours buying and selling, Alphabet up 6%, Meta down 6.6% and Amazon down 3.7%. Bitcoin was down about 0.9% within the final 24 hours.
The following massive take a look at of total market sentiment and miners will come when chipmaker Nvidia studies earnings on Might 20.
Here’s what the tech giants reported and stated throughout their earnings.
Microsoft
Microsoft reported fiscal Q3 2026 income of $82.9 billion, beating the $81.4 billion consensus, with EPS of $4.27 in opposition to the $4.06 estimate, in keeping with FactSet information.
“We’re centered on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and options that empower each enterprise to eval-max their outcomes within the agentic computing period,” stated Satya Nadella, chairman and chief govt officer of Microsoft, noting that the agency’s AI enterprise introduced in $37 billion, up 123% year-over-year.
Alphabet
Alphabet pointed to AI as a core driver of development and reported capital expenditures of $35.67 billion for the quarter, barely under estimates of $36.39 billion.
“Our AI investments and full stack method are lighting up each a part of the enterprise,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated, linking positive factors in Search and Cloud to AI-driven demand. Google Cloud income rose 63% to $20 billion, fueled partly by “enterprise AI Options and enterprise AI Infrastructure,” displaying how AI is shaping each product utilization and enterprise adoption.
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 income of $109.9 billion, beating the $107 billion consensus, with EPS of $2.81 in opposition to the $2.63 estimate.
Amazon
Amazon reported Q1 2026 income of $181.5 billion, beating the $177.2 billion consensus, with EPS of $2.78 in opposition to the $1.63 estimate. AWS income got here in at $37.6 billion in opposition to the $36.92 billion estimate.
Amazon stated free money circulate fell sharply over the previous 12 months, pointing to a surge in infrastructure spending. The corporate famous the drop was “pushed primarily by a year-over-year improve of $59.3 billion in purchases of property and tools,” including that “this improve primarily displays investments in synthetic intelligence.” The shift reveals how closely Amazon is leaning into AI, even because it weighs on near-term money era.
Meta
Meta pointed to rising AI infrastructure prices as a key driver of spending, reporting $19.84 billion in capital expenditures for the quarter and elevating its full-year outlook to $125–145 billion, up from its prior steering of $115–$135 billion. The rise displays “larger part pricing this 12 months and, to a lesser extent, further information heart prices to help future 12 months capability,” the corporate stated, underscoring how AI buildout is driving funding.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed the push extra immediately, calling it a “milestone quarter” tied to AI progress and including, “We’re on monitor to ship private superintelligence to billions of individuals.”
Meta reported Q1 2026 income of $56.31 billion, beating the $55.5 billion consensus, with EPS of $10.44 in opposition to the $6.67 estimate.