Alphabet's Cloud Backlog Tops $500 Billion, Motley Fool Says

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Motley Fool reports Alphabet's Google Cloud backlog has topped five hundred billion dollars. Skip Waverly is live outside a data center. Skip.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I'm outside a very large, very beige building where the cloud lives. It's a warehouse. I was promised actual clouds. Brock would be furious.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThe Motley Fool says the backlog is five hundred fourteen billion dollars, with cloud revenue growth at eighty-two percent.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThat's a lot of zeros for a building with no windows.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThe piece says search still brings in sixty-three billion dollars a quarter, but cloud could pass it as the growth engine by next year.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThat's the Fool's view, not mine.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentA security guard just asked me to stop hugging the fence. I said I'm press. He said the fence is also press.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI don't know what that means, Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you, Skip. Please release the fence.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnalysts also warn of near-term free cash flow pressure, which is a polite way of saying the bills have arrived.