Wall Street expects Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet to report on Wednesday faster growth in their cloud businesses, but a turbulent market selloff and concerns over rising costs of AI financing are tempering optimism.
Investors are pressing for evidence that the AI boom can deliver swift returns to justify its enormous price tag. Rising bond yields at AI cloud providers such as CoreWeave and record costs to insure Meta Platform's debt have amplified concerns about how the massive AI infrastructure buildout is being funded, particularly as higher US interest rates loom.
