Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), the parent company of Google, announced after hours on Monday it plans to raise $80 billion through a stock sale to fund its artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout.
The proceeds will be directed towards capital expenditure to scale AI infrastructure and global compute capacity, with Alphabet citing demand for its AI products from enterprises and consumers that is currently exceeding available supply.
As part of the raise, $10 billion in stock will be sold directly to Berkshire Hathaway, the global holding company previously led by Warren Buffett.
The fundraising follows Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai's announcement at Google I/O last month that the company expects to spend between $180 billion and $190 billion on capital expenditure this year alone.
That figure sits within a broader industry spending surge: US technology giants are expected to collectively deploy as much as $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026.
Alphabet said the stock sale represented a means of funding its investment programme in a balanced way while maintaining a healthy balance sheet.
The raise underscores the scale of compute required to support the next generation of AI services, with Google and its rivals racing to expand data centre capacity amid intensifying competition from Anthropic, OpenAI and others.
Alphabet's move comes as the AI sector enters a period of unprecedented capital mobilisation, with infrastructure investment now measured in the hundreds of billions.