{"id":481540,"date":"2026-06-03T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481540\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:02:09","slug":"ai-capital-spending-surge-persists-as-market-stress-emerges-executives-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481540\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Capital Spending Surge Persists as Market Stress Emerges, Executives Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The AI-driven boom will ease up at some point in the future but not yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1714827D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Diameter Capital Partners<\/a> co-founder and Managing Partner Scott Goodwin said at the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Goodwin cited Alphabet Inc.\u2019s move this week to first raise a record $80 billion in equity and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-03\/alphabet-upsizes-equity-offering-to-85-billion-for-ai-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">increase that to $85 billion<\/a> as a prime example of the enormous demand for capital to fuel artificial intelligence and the infrastructure to support it. Alphabet, along with Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., are expected to rack up combined capital expenditures of more than $500 billion this year to accelerate AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI-driven boom will ease up at some point in the future but not yet, Diameter Capital Partners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21199,1671,34856,218,72,44530,42656,572,113,61,4082,60,123,39523,1672,207346,80],"class_list":["post-481540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-ares-management-corp-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-capital-expenditures","tag-capital-partners","tag-deals","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-infrastructure","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-mike-arougheti","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}