capital expenditure

Petroineos stated that the size of the site meant that "high levels of capital expenditure each year" were spent on it, which outweighed the company's earnings.

Alphabet said that it spent $12 billion on capital expenditures in the first quarter, soaring 91 percent from a year earlier.

It plans to use net proceeds — which it estimated at $198 million assuming an IPO price of $88 — for general corporate purposes including working capital and capital expenditures.

“I'm going to have to explore more digital and delivery avenues. I'm going to obviously have to make, like any smaller-business owner, harder choices around big capital expenditures.”

But Amazon’s chief financial officer said in February that capital expenditures would increase this year to support AWS growth, including AI-related projects.