Google Spends More On Servers Than The Whole World Used To
The Next Platform, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Here is a funny number to chew on. Sometime in the early part of 2026, if current trends persist, Google will have a spending rate on servers that is in excess of the inflation adjusted spending levels set by the entire world in the wake of the Dot Com bust.
And it will not be long before Google's spending rate on servers - all by its lonesome - matches the spending rate during the Dot Com boom.
Right now, given all of the numbers that Google has put out, we project that it will spend $55.2 billion on servers in 2025, and that beats the anemic $51.5 billion the world spent on servers in 2009 when the Great Recession caused a 20 percent decline in server spending (these figures are expressed in 2021 US dollars) and it nearly matches the $57.7 billion that was spent worldwide on all kinds of iron in the following year.