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Back in the driver’s seat
Alphabet got a nice Monday bounce, climbing more than 3% as the market rotated back into mega-cap tech. When the Nasdaq is sprinting and oil is tumbling, the big guys usually get to look like the cool kids again.
The real headline: Alabama is getting bigger
The more interesting part for long-term investors is Google’s $1.5 billion plan to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. That site has been humming since 2019 on a repurposed coal plant property — which is a very 2020s sentence if there ever was one.
Google says it’ll cover 100% of the project’s power and infrastructure costs, and it’s also sprinkling in some community candy:
- a $2 million Energy Impact Fund with the TVA and CAANEAL
- $550,000 for STEM education kits
- continued water stewardship and digital-skills work in the area
Why investors care
This isn’t just a ribbon-cutting. It’s another sign Alphabet is still spending heavily to keep its cloud and AI infrastructure fed. That’s great if you think the company’s scale is its moat; less great if you’re hoping the capex bill takes a nap.
The bigger picture
The stock’s longer-term trend still looks intact, even if short-term momentum has cooled a bit. In plain English: the chart says “healthy,” the spending says “ambitious,” and the market says “fine, but please show me the payoff eventually.” Big picture: Alphabet keeps acting like a company that wants to win the AI era by building the biggest toolbox on the block.