# Alphabet Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 > *Verbatim extracts from Alphabet Inc.'s annual report on Form 10-K (CIK 0001652044; ticker GOOGL), filed 2026-02-05 for the period ended 2025-12-31. Accession No. 0001652044-26-000018. Retrieved 2026-06-04 from SEC EDGAR via the sec-edgar MCP connector; saved `original_file` is the EDGAR filing-index page.* ## Source metadata - **Filer**: Alphabet Inc. (CIK 0001652044; ticker GOOGL; file no. 001-37580) — parent of Google LLC. - **Form**: 10-K, period of report 2025-12-31 - **Filed**: 2026-02-05 - **Accession**: 0001652044-26-000018 - **Filing index (saved original)**: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/ - **Wayback**: Save Page Now timed out 2026-06-04; retry pending. SEC EDGAR is a permanent public-record repository. ## Extract ### AI-optimized infrastructure / data centers (Item 1, Business) > "At the foundation of our full-stack approach is our AI-optimized infrastructure — a key differentiator enabling us to power our own products, such as Search and YouTube, and support the services we provide to our Google Cloud customers... We are focused on driving efficiencies in our data centers, allowing us to leverage our technical infrastructure to deliver our products and services at an increasing scale..." Alphabet states it has "invested more than $200 billion in research and development in the last five years." ### Infrastructure investment and third-party leasing (Item 1A, Risk Factors) > "To meet the compute capacity demands of AI training and inference, as well as traditional cloud computing services, we are entering into significant leasing arrangements with third party operators, which may increase costs and operational complexity. We also have a number of large, long-duration commercial agreements, which could increase our liabilities and obligations in the event of nonperformance..." > "We have invested and expect to significantly expand our investment in property and equipment, including our technical infrastructure, and we expect these assets to benefit our business over their estimated useful lives." ## Notes - **Tier 2** — primary public corporate record (parent company's SEC-filed annual report). It is **parent-attribution context only**: it establishes the scale and nature of Alphabet/Google's data-center infrastructure investment in general. It does **not** name Arkansas, the Arkansas sites, the shell LLCs ([[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] / [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] / [[Spark Innovations, LLC]]), or any Arkansas project — and therefore does **not** un-bracket the [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] principal-attribution question (the shells are private and do not appear in EDGAR). See [[D006 Synthesis]] for the controlling restraint. - **Caution / non-conflation**: Alphabet's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit is also marketed under the name "Ironwood." This is unrelated to Entergy Arkansas's [[Ironwood]] (Lake Catherine Unit 5) gas plant; the two must not be conflated. - Cited by: [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]]; [[Google LLC]].