Amazon spent over $77B on property and equipment in Q3
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The capex figure far exceeded analysts' estimates as Amazon builds data centers to meet AI services demand. The spending breakdown was discussed on "Bloomberg The Close" by Anurag Rana and Poonam Goyal.
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