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Google Investment Chief Ruth Porat Breaks Down the Tech Giant’s $190B A.I. Bet

"If you wake up in the middle of the night and your child has a fever, and you want to give Tylenol, it better be right. Google stands for quality, and that was very important to us," Porat said.

On Tuesday (May 19), as Sundar Pichai unveiled a slew of A.I. updates at Google’s annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., the company’s president and chief investment officer, Ruth Porat, took the stage in a scorching New York City to explain the massive financial stakes behind the tech giant’s ambitious A.I. push.

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Google’s capital expenditure (CapEx) has nearly doubled from last year, skyrocketing to an estimated $180 billion to $190 billion in 2026. The company has committed to spending roughly 40 percent of that staggering budget on data center buildouts, with the remaining 60 percent allocated to other A.I. infrastructure like chips. Speaking at Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit during an onstage........

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