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Capital expenditure refers to one-time investment in acquiring long-term assets (such as servers, facilities and software licenses), typically depreciated annually and allocated to the income statement; operating expenditure is the continuous spending to maintain daily operations (such as cloud service fees, electricity and staff salaries), charged directly to current costs.
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