Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom
17 hours ago · While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
data center debt surge 2025 ai infrastructure boom: Data ...
10 hours ago · Data center debt is soaring. In 2025, borrowing has jumped 112% to $25 billion. The AI boom is driving this surge. Companies are racing to build hyperscale centers for AI …
Mounting debt fuels AI data centre boom, raising fears of ...
9 hours ago · The shift to debt financing is reminiscent of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, when many companies racked up debt as they raced to lay the fiber-optic cables that would …
Why Debt Funding Is Raising the Stakes of the AI Boom
1 day ago · Start‑ups Turn to Debt to Keep Up For the myriad of smaller AI startups, the story is very different. Lacking the cash reserves of the industry giants, many are resorting to …
Five debt hotspots in the AI data centre boom | Reuters
5 days ago · AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, but the data centres needed to power the promised revolution are increasingly being financed with complex debt that …
AI’s $5T data-center boom will dip into every debt market ...
8 hours ago · Even with funding from the investment-grade and high-yield bond markets, as well as up to $40 billion per year in data-center securitizations, it will still be insufficient to meet …
AI’s $5 trillion data center boom will dip into every debt ...
10 hours ago · The furious push by AI hyperscalers to build out data centers will need about $1.5 trillion of investment-grade bonds over the next five years and extensive funding from every …