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•the impact of stagnating or worsening business and economic conditions, including inflationary pressures, general economic slowdown or a recession, actual or anticipated changes in interest rates, reductions in government spending or other changes in monetary policy, or adverse financial or commodity markets activity or macroeconomic conditions, including as a result of geopolitical conflicts;

The enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) introduced a corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”).

These competitive pressures and the resulting wage inflation may increase our labor costs and adversely impact our operational results.

In particular, there is currently significant uncertainty about trade policies, treaties, tariffs and taxes, which may lead to continuing volatility in U.S. and global financial and economic conditions and commodity markets, declining consumer confidence, significant inflation and diminished expectations for the economy, and which may ultimately lead to reduced usage or demand for our products.

In addition, advertising spending is often adversely affected by macroeconomic factors like economic downturns and inflation.

Ongoing conflict in the Middle East can exacerbate the foregoing factors and lead to regional instability and uncertain global economic conditions, including global or regional inflation, economic recession, challenges in purchasing materials used by us or by our customers in the manufacture of semiconductor chips, and disruptions to our supply chain and logistics.

For example, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, enacted in August 2022, imposes a 15% minimum tax on global adjusted financial statement income for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022 for certain large companies.

Even in the absence of tariffs or other trade restrictions, the related uncertainty with respect to international trade may lead to continuing volatility in U.S. and global financial and economic conditions and commodity markets, declining consumer confidence, significant inflation and diminished expectations for the economy, and ultimately reduced usage and demand for our products.

Labor shortages, competition for talent, wage inflation, labor disputes, immigration restrictions, or shortages of specialized contractors could increase operating and construction costs, extend project timelines, and adversely affect our ability to deploy infrastructure at the pace required to meet demand.

Additionally, future tariffs could cause the costs of the equipment we use to operate our global network to increase, corporate spending to become delayed or curtailed, increase rates of inflation, reduce economic growth rates, create an economic downturn or recession, or result in other similar or unexpected adverse effects on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.

In addition to general economic conditions, impacts of other macroeconomic events, such as valuation concerns related to AI technologies, continued inflation and labor market concerns, public health crises, geopolitical tensions or conflicts and risks, climate change and other severe weather and natural disasters and uncertainties in global financial markets, could materially adversely impact our operations or those

For example, we experienced supply chain disruption and inflationary pressures during our fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, resulting in increased costs for memory and other components, which have negatively affected our gross margin and could continue to affect our gross margin.

While recently moderating, inflation in the U.S. had increased to a rate not seen in several decades.

elevated inflation high interest rates.

Due to the unpredictability of future general economic and financial market conditions, including from the global economic impact of ongoing conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine and the regional conflict in the Middle East; the pace of change and innovation in enterprise cloud computing services; the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; uncertainty regarding changes in trade policy; changing intere

For example, the United States enacted the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, which, among other provisions, implements a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax on adjusted financial statement income, effective in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022, and a 1% excise tax on share repurchases, effective for repurchases made after December 31, 2022, which could include capped call transactions such as th

Furthermore, inflation rates in the U.S. and other key markets have recently increased to levels not seen in decades resulting in federal action to increase interest rates, affecting capital markets.

The impact of economic conditions, including the ongoing effects of inflation, high interest rates, regional or global recessions and changing trade regulations including tariffs could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition in a number of ways, including by reducing sales, lengthening sales cycles and requiring us to lower prices for our services.