{"id":151077,"date":"2026-05-09T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151077"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:00:10","slug":"bytedance-raises-2026-capex-by-at-least-25-amid-ai-boom-rising-memory-costs-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151077","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance raises 2026 capex by at least 25% amid AI boom, rising memory costs, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostTikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure this year to more than 200 billion yuan (US$30 billion), according to two people familiar with the matter.<br \/>\nThis represented an increase of at least 25 per cent compared with a preliminary plan discussed late last year that proposed AI capex of 160 billion yuan, they said.<br \/>\nThe increase was necessary because of the company\u2019s growing commitment to AI, as well as&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3352906\/bytedance-raises-2026-capex-least-25-amid-ai-boom-rising-memory-costs-sources-say?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostTikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure this year to more than 200 billion&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}