Microsoft Fiscal Q3 2024 Earnings: 80% YoY Increase in Capex; Azure AI is Hitting Capacity

Highlights this quarter include Azure’s growth of 31% up from 30% and 28% on CC basis last quarter. Of this, 7 points was from AI compared to 6 points from AI last quarter. The reason that Azure did not see more QoQ growth from AI is due to capacity constraints. In other words, Microsoft has higher demand than they have GPU supply. This is leading Microsoft to grow its capex 80% YoY from $7.8 billion in the year ago quarter to $14 billion this quarter. On a fiscal year basis, capex will grow 50% this year, and what this quarter proves, is that this high growth rate on already high capex spend is only accelerating.

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