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Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets

Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race.

Bloomberg Carmen Arroyo

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  • @arroyonieto Carmen Arroyo on x
    Just this month, Meta secured $60 billion in capital for data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the AI race. But half of that won't show up on its balance sheet. Here's how AI firms are raising money, and using financial engineering. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
  • @mattzollerseitz Matt Zoller Seitz on bluesky
    And by “off-balance-sheet debt,” they mean accounting fraud [embedded post]
  • @datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero on bluesky
    CDOs by another name
  • @meigloo @meigloo on bluesky
    funny thing is that now they have to keep pouring money into this if they want to keep the bubble alive
  • @ivanthek @ivanthek on bluesky
    The question is whether fixed income investors will figure out that all these debt deals have some serious credit risk correlations, and will limit their portfolio allocations accordingly.  [embedded post]
  • @lmnisop @lmnisop on bluesky
    Pull money out of your profitable gaming division so you can put it all in an unprofitable bubble.  Brilliant
  • @tumescentnumpty @tumescentnumpty on bluesky
    can't believe clippy but more of a pain in the ass didn't pay out
  • r/artificial r on reddit
    Meta, xAI Starting Trend for Billions in Off-Balance Sheet Debt