New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Google parent Alphabet in its annual financial report last week highlighted potential impact of artificial intelligence on its advertising business and noted that huge commitments in the field could leave the company with some "excess capacity", as per a CNBC report.

During the analyst call too, CEO Sundar Pichai told stakeholders that "compute capacity" was a matter of concern for executives. "Power, land, supply chain constraints, how do you ramp up to meet this extraordinary demand for this moment?" he added, the CNBC report added.

"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 p...