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Alphabet Inc.

Internet Content & Information NASDAQ: GOOGL Public abc.xyz ↗ Mountain View, CA, United States SEC CIK 1652044 ↗

Strong efficiency gains in AI hardware; rapid capex growth but no velocity metrics; supportive clean-energy policy positions. Model synthesis · opinion

Climbing Confidence 45%
Kardashev-equivalent K 0.347

3.0 GW average power · 25.91 TWh/yr energy consumed (2023).

K = (log₁₀P − 6) / 10 with P in watts. Humanity today ≈ K 0.73. Computed in code from the reported figure — source: gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmen....

Index composition

65% measured · 35% opinion · method
Energy throughput Measured 30% 6.2   65%
Compute capacity Measured 20% —   no data
Growth gradient Measured 15% 7.5   71%
Frontier acceleration Opinion 15% 6.0   69%
Builder velocity Opinion 12% —   no data
Permission to build Opinion 8% 6.0   61%

Index = weighted mean of the scored categories (weights renormalized over what was scored) · coverage 68% · confidence 45% · measured share 66% of the scored weight (opinion 34%). No “overall” is asked of the model. Scores are AI-assisted (disclosures).

Run history

Every published measurement, newest first. N is the run on the leaderboard now; failed attempts are not shown. Unranked runs show no Index; Δ and the Index trend compare ranked runs only.

A trend line appears after the second published run.

RunPublishedIndexΔK-equivMethodView
N current 2026-10-10 6.4 — 0.347 pipeline-v2.9 · weights-v1 · rubrics-v1 viewing

Measured — computed in code from reported figures

Joules · weight 30%

Energy throughput

6.2/ 10

Reported energy consumed: 25,910,500 MWh (2023) = 25.91 TWh/yr → 3.0 GW average → score 6.2, K = 0.347.

P = annual energy (J) / seconds per year → average watts. Score = clamp(2.5 × (log₁₀P − 7), 0, 10). Kardashev-equivalent K = (log₁₀P − 6) / 10. · confidence 65%

Watts of thought · weight 20%

Compute capacity

—no data

No verified operating data-center capacity was found, so this category is unscored.

Score = clamp(2.5 × log₁₀(MW), 0, 10).

Slope · weight 15%

Growth gradient

7.5/ 10

Compound annual growth: capex +43%/yr over 3y, revenue +14%/yr over 2y → score 7.5. Not available: energy (confidence reduced).

  • Verified evidence
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 31,485,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2022-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001652044-25-000014) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-10 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 32,251,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2023-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001652044-26-000018) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-10 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 52,535,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2024-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001652044-26-000018) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-10 ↗
  • PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment = 91,447,000,000 USD for fiscal year ended 2025-12-31 (10-K, accession 0001652044-26-000018) sec.gov · fetched 2026-10-10 ↗
  • +4 more in Reported figures
Each available sub-metric's compound annual growth rate (up to 3 years) is mapped piecewise-linearly through the anchors, then combined with weights capex 50%, revenue 25%, energy 25% (renormalized over what is available). · confidence 71%

Opinion — model-judged against written rubrics, from verified quotes only

Opinion · Capability · weight 15%

Frontier acceleration

6.0/ 10

3x computing power per energy unit and 3x carbon-efficiency gains on TPU AI workloads show material capability/cost improvements [E287][E288].

Opinion Rubric · confidence 69%

Opinion · Shipping · weight 12%

Builder velocity

—insufficient

No evidence on deployment cadence, timelines or first-of-a-kind builds.

Opinion Rubric

Opinion · Policy · weight 8%

Permission to build

6.0/ 10

Public 24/7 CFE goal by 2030 and advocacy for hourly matching in EU directives support clean energy build-out [E289][E290].

Opinion Rubric · confidence 61%

Reported figures

MetricValuePeriodSource
Capital expenditure 91,447,000,000 USD FY2025 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 52,535,000,000 USD FY2024 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 32,251,000,000 USD FY2023 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Capital expenditure 31,485,000,000 USD FY2022 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 402,836,000,000 USD FY2025 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 350,018,000,000 USD FY2024 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 307,394,000,000 USD FY2023 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Revenue 257,637,000,000 USD FY2021 sec.gov ↗ SEC XBRL
Energy consumed 25,910,500 MWh 2023 gstatic.com ↗
Electricity consumed 25,307,000 MWh 2023 gstatic.com ↗
Capital expenditure 91,447 USD millions 2025 sec.gov ↗

Sources we fetched and verified

  1. SEC XBRL company facts — Alphabet Inc. data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001652044.json · fetched 2026-10-10 · primary
  2. goog-20251231 sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/go... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 d87cf57c0252 · primary
  3. Alphabet Investor Relations - Investors abc.xyz/investor · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 6a3b8d7e2cab · primary
  4. sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2002988/000121390026108587/ea0276911-10.htm sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2002988/000121390026108587/ea... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 e4b455ae6439 · primary
  5. static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//about/datacenters/static/pdf/english-google-tw-impact... static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//abo... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 c5b9a6d40e1c
  6. static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//about/datacenters/static/pdf/traditional-chinese-goog... static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//abo... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 264b12d8b5f9
  7. Google, Intersect launch 1GW clean energy data centre project - PV Tech pv-tech.org/google-intersect-launch-1gw-plus-clean-energy... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 977c96517246
  8. Carbon free energy for Google Cloud regions cloud.google.com/sustainability/region-carbon · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 550b5b6ae6bd
  9. TPUs improved carbon-efficiency of AI workloads by 3x | Google Cloud Blog cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/tpus-improved... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 7af6515dd0d0
  10. 24x7 Carbon Free Energy gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/247-carbon-free-energy.pdf · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 e6453e9bf90d
  11. Google 2024 Environmental Report - Google Sustainability gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmen... · fetched 2026-10-10 · sha256 29ade2be2f75

4 other candidate links were rejected (dead, soft-404, blocked or unreadable) and are not shown.

Run N · 2026-10-10 12:04 PDT · 1m 56s · 8 stages · grok-4.3
StageStatusTimeWeb searches
resolvesucceeded5.7 s2
researchsucceeded18 s5
edgarsucceeded0.4 s—
fetchsucceeded1m 04s—
extractsucceeded18 s—
computesucceeded0.0 s—
judgesucceeded9.4 s—
aggregatesucceeded0.0 s—

pipeline-v2.9 · prompts-v2.5 · rubrics-v1 · weights-v1 · bundle f7ca9a5c4a2a · code eb7ac43

Last updated 2026-10-10 How the Index is computed