Alphabet’s revenues undershot estimates in the fourth quarter as the search giant’s cloud business grew slower than expected, while it continued to accelerate its spending on data centres in response to demand from artificial intelligence.
Alphabet第四季度营收低于预期，原因是这家搜索巨头的云业务增长速度低于预期，同时，为了应对人工智能的需求，该公司继续加快在数据中心的支出。
Revenue rose 12 per cent to $96.5bn in the three months through December compared with the same period the previous year. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, that figure was $81.6bn, missing Wall Street estimates in a Bloomberg poll of $82.8bn. Net income rose 28 per cent to $26.5bn.
截至去年12月的三个月里，营收同比增长12%，达到965亿美元。除去流量获取成本，这一数字为816亿美元，低于华尔街在彭博社调查中预计的828亿美元。净利润增长28%，达到265亿美元。
Alphabet shares dropped more than 6 per cent in after-hours trading. The stock had previously risen 45 per cent in the past 12 months, giving it a market capitalisation of $2.5tn and making it the fifth most-valuable listed company in the world behind Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.
Alphabet股价在盘后交易中下跌逾6%。该股此前在过去12个月内上涨45%，市值达到2.5万亿美元，成为仅次于苹果(Apple)、微软(Microsoft)、英伟达(Nvidia)和亚马逊(Amazon)的全球第五大市值上市公司。
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本文2025年2月5日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为
Alphabet shares sink after cloud growth stalls and spending surges
