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Ruth Porat

President & Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet Inc. (Google)

Search every verified Ruth Porat interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google, spoke at the 2026 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara on October 12, 2026. She discussed Alphabet's capital expenditure plans, stating that the company has publicly projected about $200 billion in capex for the current year and expects that figure to increase significantly the following year. Porat noted that Alphabet and several peers are capacity-constrained due to high demand for compute from enterprise and government partners. She also addressed community concerns about data center construction, citing that 71% of Americans do not want a data center built in their community, and emphasized the importance of working with communities to add energy capacity, address energy affordability, and protect local resources. Porat also discussed Alphabet's efforts to apply AI to social good, mentioning a partnership involving one million scans completed to date with local partners, with a target of more than six million scans for people at risk of losing their eyesight. She described the pace of research breakthroughs as exciting and framed responsible AI development as involving rigorous foundations, responsible infrastructure building, and ensuring benefits address societal inequities. Porat, a two-time cancer survivor, has previously spoken about the need for preventive technologies to detect cancer earlier, and her leadership story was highlighted in the context of her role at the intersection of capital allocation, technological transformation, and corporate strategy.

Recent appearances

  • Investing for the Long-Term: A Conversation with Ruth Porat

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 Fortune Magazine

    Ruth Porat, who is ranked No. 11 on this year’s MPW list, has helped shape some of the most consequential bets in modern business. As Alphabet and Google’s President and Chief Investment Officer, and formerly its CFO, she operates at the intersection of capital allocation, technological transformation, and corporate strategy at extraordinary scale. Elements of her leadership story are also deeply personal. A two-time cancer survivor, Porat has spoken openly about her diagnosis and treatment—and about the urgent need to develop preventive technologies that can detect cancer earlier, expand acce…

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  • EEI 2026 Keynote: A Conversation with Ruth Porat

    August 10, 2026 · 📺 EEITV

    Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, joined the EEI 2026 keynote stage for a conversation with Calvin Butler, president and CEO of Exelon, about how vital partnerships between tech companies and EEI member electric companies are to expanding AI and digital infrastructure responsibly.

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  • Unlocking AI’s Potential with Ruth Porat

    July 15, 2026 · 📺 The Economic Club of New York

    On this episode of The Forum, hosted by ‪@CNBC‬ 's Becky Quick, Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and ‪@Google‬ joins Arvind Krishna, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ‪@IBM‬ and Vice Chair of The Economic Club of New York, for a conversation on artificial intelligence, innovation, and the future of work. Porat shares why she believes AI has the potential to unlock new opportunities across industries, emphasizing that the technology will reshape tasks rather than eliminate careers. The discussion explores AI infrastructure, workforce transformation…

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  • Google CIO Ruth Porat on AI Optimism, Data Centers, and the U.S.-China Energy Race

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 The Economic Club of New York

    Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, lays out the case for AI optimism, a projected $4 trillion lift to U.S. GDP, Nobel Prize–winning breakthroughs like AlphaFold, and gains in cybersecurity and healthcare, in conversation with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna. From there, the conversation turns to one of AI's most contested questions: energy. Porat breaks down why data centers aren't the primary driver behind rising electricity prices, how Google is investing in added capacity and demand response to offset its footprint, and why the U.S. risks falling…

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  • Bonus: Ruth Porat - “If We Can, We Must.” | Ruthie's Table 4

    June 11, 2026 · 📺 Ruthie's Table 4

    🛎 If You're New Subscribe ►    / @ruthiestable4pod   Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google | Ruthie's Table 4 Ruth Porat is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Google and Alphabet. She is also my friend. Her extraordinary schedule has often kept us thousands of miles apart as she moves across continents, connecting people, ideas, and communities. But today, we’re together at last - a Ruth and a Ruthie - to talk about the importance of food at Google, her scientific childhood, how her father survived the Holocaust to rebuild his family, and how…

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  • The Path to Growth | Google Zeitgeist

    June 10, 2026 · 📺 Google Zeitgeist

    In this exclusive fireside chat, Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet & Google sits down with world-renowned economist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Philippe Aghion, to explore the mechanics of innovation in the age of AI. They explore why technology alone isn't enough to guarantee shared prosperity, and how the right institutions, deliberate policies, and data-driven innovation are essential to unlocking AI’s full economic potential.

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  • Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google | Ruthie's Table 4

    June 08, 2026 · 📺 Ruthie's Table 4

    🛎 If You're New Subscribe ►    / @ruthiestable4pod   Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer at Alphabet and Google | Ruthie's Table 4 Ruth Porat is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Google and Alphabet. She is also my friend. Her extraordinary schedule has often kept us thousands of miles apart as she moves across continents, connecting people, ideas, and communities. But today, we’re together at last - a Ruth and a Ruthie - to talk about the importance of food at Google, her scientific childhood, how her father survived the Holocaust to rebuild his family, and how…

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  • The New Rules of AI: Inside Google’s AI Surge and Growth Strategy | Fast Company

    May 20, 2026 · 📺 Fast Company

    Featuring Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google Moderated by Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company With the release of its Gemini 3 family of AI models, Google is reshaping the tech world order and reaping the benefits of its long-term plan to seed useful AI everywhere. Gemini 3 powers core products including the Gemini Chatbot app, AI Overviews in Google Search, and Gemini Enterprise, a platform for enterprise search, AI assistants, and agents. Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, shares where the company is inv…

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  • FULL DEBATE: Chris Wright, Google’s Ruth Porat Discuss Energy Future at BlackRock Summit | AC1G

    March 11, 2026 · 📺 DRM News

    U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright joined Alphabet President and CIO Ruth Porat, NextEra Energy CEO John Ketchum, and Global Infrastructure Partners’ Salim Samaha at the 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington. The discussion focused on energy security, infrastructure investment, and the future of power demand as governments and industry leaders confront rising global energy needs. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Joins Tech and Energy Leaders at Infrastructure Summit Chris Wright, Google’s Ruth Porat Discuss Ene…

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  • Reigniting the American Dream - A Conversation With Ruth Porat

    February 21, 2026 · 📺 National Governors Association

    As part of his Reigniting the American Dream Chair’s Initiative, NGA Chair Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt led a discussion with Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, on the role of innovation and AI in advancing the American Dream.

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  • Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat and Gita Gopinath: Where Public Meets Private

    January 01, 2026 · 📺 IMF

    While international financial institutions work with policymakers to help countries navigate their way through the myriad of disruptions in the global economy of late, the private sector plays a critical role in catalyzing investment that will help bring long-term solutions. In this podcast, Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat and IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath discuss the growing number of challenges facing the global economy and the opportunities where the private sector can help. Transcript: (http://traffic.libsyn.com/imfpodcast/...) https://bit.ly/…

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  • President and Chief Investment Officer of Google | Ruth Porat 169

    December 22, 2025 · 📺 The Mo Show

    On this rare and deeply personal conversation, we were fortunate to sit down with Ruth as she opened up about the defining moments of her life, from learning the power of smart risk to helping stabilize the global economy in 2008. We got into Google’s AI strategy, how competition from ChatGPT ultimately makes the company stronger, the Nobel Prize–winning breakthroughs behind AlphaFold and Ruth’s candid view on how close we really are to finding a cure for cancer. Ruth also shares her “battle scars”, hiring philosophy, her vision for the future of teleportation technology, and the advice she…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“So I actually I think that energy is a core part of it but I would actually broaden out the question because clearly in the US and you're in particular in the US we're seeing something like 71% of Americans say they don't want a data center built in their community. However, when it is clear that you want to work with the community in a way that delivers for the community, which includes adding energy capacity, addre”

“So, there are a couple parts to that. One, we've said publicly that we're looking at about 200 billion of capex this year and that we expect that will increase significantly next year. And we've also said as have a number of our peers that we are capacity constrained. The demand for compute because of the value that our partners are seeing in the enterprise in governments, what we're seeing across our platform sugges”

“We have seen job creation, job augmentation, and job destruction. And historically more jobs created than destroyed. Uh but we need to of course deal with the transition. On job creation throughout history, it has been virtually impossible to see the new industries that would be born at the time of the introduction of a new technology.”

“We are investing to add to energy capacity. We are investing and working with our partners to protect energy affordability. We pay, obviously, for not only the energy that we use, but for all of the infrastructure growth required whether or not we use it, so that we can immunize, basically, consumers and businesses from that growth expense. We build energy affordability funds.”

“China has built 80 times more transmission capacity in the last 10 years than the United States. 80 times. China has a clear focus that to win in technology, the US may be ahead in chips and in models, and we at Google believe we will continue to be ahead in chips and models. But you can't deliver that without the energy that's needed, and China has been focused and relentless adding sources of energy as you just sai”

“In the US alone, it's estimated that the upside is about 4 trillion to GDP over the next several years. And we're already seeing with small small businesses that are applying AI to whether it's how they reach out to customers, how they engage with customers, how they manage chain, etc. They're seeing 80% of them are seeing their saying they're seeing an uplift in revenue and profitability.”

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