The AI Bubble Is Now A Debt Disaster

Tech giants face a mounting debt crisis as aggressive AI investments drain cash reserves.

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Amazon just spent more than $77 billion on AI and saw $42.4b in cash OUTFLOWS. Alphabet has now lost more than $500b in market value following its largest one-day stock decline ever. Microsoft, meanwhile, is offering voluntary buyouts to more than one-quarter of its global workforce as it attempts to contain costs and fund its own massive AI investments.

These aren’t weak, speculative startups.

Yet even they are conserving cash, finding new forms of financing and forcing investors to confront spending commitments that seem to grow after every earnings report.

Credit markets have noticed.

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