CLAIM #44646 · Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) · 2024Q3 earnings call · Apr 25, 2024 · due Sep 30, 2024
“I do think it's important to really think about our planning cycles and we do talk about spending sequentially higher. And we look forward to being able to continue to build out the infrastructure needed to meet the demand.”
Amy Hood · CFO
How to check this claim
Look at: Total capital expenditures (including finance leases), quarterly, as reported by Microsoft
It came true if: Capex sequentially higher each quarter through the period (Q ending 6/30/2024 > Q ending 3/31/2024, and Q ending 9/30/2024 > Q ending 6/30/2024)
Where: Microsoft quarterly earnings press release / 10-Q cash flow statement (capital expenditures line)
In context
“which is, one, we first innovate and build products. And of course, we have an infrastructure business that's also dependent on a lot of ISVs building products that run on our infrastructure. And it's all going to be demand driven. In other words, we track – we're closely what's happening with inference demand, and that's something that we will manage, as Amy said in her remarks very, very closely. So we feel – and obviously, we've been doing this, quite frankly, Keith, for now multiple years. So this is not the quarter. I realize in the news, it's a lot more in the quarter nowadays. But if you look at it, we have been doing what is essentially capital allocation to be a leader in AI for multiple years now, and we plan to sort of essentially keep taking that forward. Amy Hood: And Keith, I do think it's important to really think about our planning cycles and we do talk about spending sequentially higher. And we look forward to being able to continue to build out the infrastructure needed to meet the demand. Another thing that you’ve really asked in the beginning was the opportunity and the size of that. And I think in some ways, it's important to think about every business process that can be impacted and the opportunity that's represented by every business process. And so when you think of it that way, I think the opportunity is significant. The opportunity to power that next wave of “cloud infrastructure” is important. It's important because we've been the leader for this decade of the cloud transition, and it's important for us to confidently invest to do that in the second wave, building on our success in the first. And I think that's really the best way to think about how we'll spend is the same way we approached it for a decade. Watch the signal, invest to be a leader in the technical”
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