{"id":674008,"date":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674008\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:16:13","slug":"meta-bond-sale-targets-up-to-25-billion-for-ai-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674008\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta bond sale targets up to $25 billion for AI spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., reveals the Meta Virtual Reality (VR) glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Minh Connors | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a> is seeking to raise between $20 billion and $25 billion in a bond sale on Tuesday as the company ramps up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure along with AI models and services. <\/p>\n<p>The debt sale is expected to be two-thirds in U.S. dollars and one-third in euros, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the details are private. Final pricing for the bond sale should come Tuesday afternoon, the sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Meta declined to comment. Bloomberg News first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-02\/meta-readies-cross-border-investment-bond-offering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> on Meta&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s bond sale comes days after S&amp;P Global Ratings<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/30\/meta-outlook-to-revised-to-negative-by-sp-after-cash-flow-negative.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> revised the company&#8217;s outlook<\/a> from AA- stable to AA- negative, citing &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; about its hefty capex spending and negative free cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/21\/meta-earnings-q3-2026-live-updates.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third-quarter earnings<\/a> report last month, the Facebook parent revealed that its full-year capex will come in between $135 billion to $145 billion, representing a $5 billion increase to the low end of its previous guidance. Meta posted<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/30\/tech-giants-alphabet-meta-microsoft-amazon-ai-buildouts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion<\/a> for its latest quarter, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> in reporting a negative figure.<\/p>\n<p>Meta previously<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/04\/30\/meta-shopping-around-20-25-billion-bond-offering-sources-say.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> raised<\/a> $25 billion in an April bond sale, and said last week that it plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/26\/meta-stock-offering-ai.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> raise $95 billion<\/a> in an effort to fund its AI initiatives. Of that, Meta intends to first raise $35 billion in underwritten public equity offerings, and an additional $60 billion through an at-the-market program.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s stock rose 2.7% on Tuesday after dropping in 12 of the prior 14 trading sessions and closing out October with its worst month in four years. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/11\/02\/ai-challenge-is-lack-of-compute-in-the-marketplace-plexo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI challenge is lack of compute in the marketplace: Plexo Capital&#8217;s Toney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/108503875-17936247871793624785-49388225350-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"AI challenge is lack of compute in the marketplace: Plexo Capital's Toney\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., reveals the Meta Virtual Reality (VR) glasses during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,3490,1671,218,219,726,122,61,206,60,1677,202,285581,58,80],"class_list":["post-674008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-ie","tag-internet","tag-ireland","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-mobile","tag-seema-mody","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674008","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=674008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}