https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/alphabets-capital-expenditures-soar-amid-cloud-push.html > Alphabet's capital expenditures in the latest quarter almost doubled, as Google continues to build out data centers for products like its cloud services. > In the second quarter, those costs jumped to $5.48 billion from $2.48 billion a year earlier, Alphabet said in its earnings report after the close of trading on Monday. Analysts on average were expecting capital expenditures of $4.19 billion, according to FactSet.