{"id":26221,"date":"2026-05-04T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:41:11","slug":"jim-cramer-says-ai-spending-is-no-bubble-as-alphabet-amazon-apple-surge-while-microsoft-and-meta-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26221\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Cramer Says AI Spending Is No Bubble As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple Surge, While Microsoft And Meta Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">Jim Cramer on Sunday argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/tech\/26\/05\/52238523\/weekend-round-up-apples-record-quarter-metas-q1-beat-microsofts-ai-revenue-surge-alphabets-earnings-triumph-and-spotifys-selloff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">latest wave of Big Tech earnings<\/a> proves aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) and data center spending is fueling competitive advantage rather than creating a dangerous market bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Cramer Rejects AI Bubble Narrative After Big Tech Earnings<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">In a detailed analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/03\/big-tech-earnings-show-how-big-smart-spending-can-be-rewarded-by-the-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published<\/a> on CNBC, Cramer pushed back against mounting concerns that hyperscaler spending on AI infrastructure is overheated, saying the latest quarterly results show the opposite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;I am growing tired of the endless bubble talk about all of the data center spending,&#8221; Cramer wrote. &#8220;This was the quarter where we realized that if you didn&#8217;t spend, you were already behind the 8-ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Over the past five days, Alphabet Class A shares surged 11.32% to $385.69, while Class C shares increased by 11.43% to $383.22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Apple climbed to $280.25, gaining 5.43% in the past five days. Meanwhile, Amazon rose 1.69% to $268.42 during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, Amazon And Apple Lead AI Investment Winners<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">According to Cramer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/earnings\/26\/04\/52152134\/alphabet-stock-climbs-after-q1-eps-blows-past-estimates-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alphabet&#8217;s rapid cloud growth<\/a> and Gemini AI expansion, combined with Amazon Web Services&#8217; accelerating revenue, justify the enormous capital expenditures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">He also described Apple as uniquely positioned despite spending less on data centers, citing its massive installed base and strategic leverage through partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;Apple&#8217;s got nothing but upside,&#8221; Cramer said.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft And Meta Under Greater Scrutiny<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">&#8220;So far the \u2018Trust in Mark Zuckerberg&#8217; view is not paying off,&#8221; Cramer wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Meta fell 9.44% over the past five days to $608.74 while Microsoft declined 1.74% to $414.20 during the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia And AI Infrastructure Remain Central<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Cramer also reinforced Nvidia Corp.&#8217;s <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"NVDA\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/NVDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/NVDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NVDA<\/a>) critical role in powering the AI boom, echoing CEO Jensen Huang&#8217;s view that expanding compute capacity directly drives revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Cramer argued that such massive AI and data center investments are both essential and justified, particularly as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic could potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/01\/50283933\/could-a-1-trillion-openai-ipo-save-the-day-for-nvidia-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reach trillion-dollar valuations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">According to Benzinga Edge Rankings, Nvidia ranks in the 97th percentile for Quality, while maintaining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/NVDA\/analyst-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strong upward trend<\/a> across its short, medium and long-term price performance metrics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Disclaimer:\u00a0This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo courtesy: Markus Mainka \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Cramer on Sunday argued that the latest wave of Big Tech earnings proves aggressive artificial intelligence (AI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,7829,15008,8374,14912,8111,5893,5896,5892,320,7828,5891,11323,7706,7777,7778,9068,5899,8226,8227],"class_list":{"0":"post-26221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"tag-azure","9":"tag-azure-ai","10":"tag-category-earnings","11":"tag-category-equities","12":"tag-category-market-summary","13":"tag-category-markets","14":"tag-category-news","15":"tag-category-tech","16":"tag-cms-wordpress","17":"tag-microsoft","18":"tag-microsoft-ai","19":"tag-pageisbzpro-bz","20":"tag-symbol-aapl","21":"tag-symbol-amzn","22":"tag-symbol-goog","23":"tag-symbol-googl","24":"tag-symbol-meta","25":"tag-symbol-msft","26":"tag-symbol-nvda","27":"tag-tag-jim-cramer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}