Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?

This is something that has been bugging me for a while, and I couldn't find any satisfactory answers online, so here goes: After reviewing a set of lectures on convex optimization, Newton's method seems to be a far superior algorithm than gradient descent to find globally optimal solutions, because Newton's method can provide a guarantee for its solution, it's affine invariant, and most of all it converges in far fewer steps. Why is second-order optimization algorithms, such as Newton's method not as widely used as stochastic gradient descent in machine learning problems?