alt Hacker NewsBond guys aren’t emotional. Inflation is heading up as are rates. They’re unloading stuff from their balance sheet that will depreciate in value.
It’s not necessarily a statement about AI, it’s just finance and accounting.
Bond guys aren’t emotional. Inflation is heading up as are rates. They’re unloading stuff from their balance sheet that will depreciate in value.
It’s not necessarily a statement about AI, it’s just finance and accounting.
Where it's going to pinch is any incompletely funded AI datacenter build-outs.
If the market is already crammed with sector-concentrated debt (because of the amount already issued), finding buyers for more is going to get increasingly hard.
At some point everyone big already has enough exposure and isn't interested in the risk of more.
The only thing that keeps the party going is being able to drain that debt off bank sheets, but it's hard to see a ton of interest in fixed rate, capped upside exposure to a high risk industry in an environment of rising central bank rates.