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Whoever Spends Smarter Wins the Microsoft-Alphabet Cloud Fight. Here Is Who Is Ahead.

Microsoft and Alphabet both posted monster cloud quarters and both are spending at a pace that would have seemed reckless two years ago, but only one of them is funding the buildout without going to the debt markets, and that gap may define the trade for 2027.

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Stocks· September 14, 2026 at 04:45 PM
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Microsoft and Alphabet both posted monster cloud quarters and both are spending at a pace that would have seemed reckless two years ago, but only one of them is funding the buildout without going to the debt markets, and that gap may define the trade for 2027.

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