{"id":277724,"date":"2026-02-10T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277724\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:58:14","slug":"google-turns-to-century-long-debt-to-build-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277724\/","title":{"rendered":"Google turns to century-long debt to build AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f408d3ce5da8159f6bf5d64daf13433a.jpeg\" alt=\"Century-long bond issues by companies are a rarity, and especially for Alphabet which has ample online ad revenue available to pay for investments rather than resorting to debt. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"532\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Century-long bond issues by companies are a rarity, and especially for Alphabet which has ample online ad revenue available to pay for investments rather than resorting to debt. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN)  \u00b7 JUSTIN SULLIVAN\/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA\/Getty Images via AFP    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Google-parent Alphabet will issue bonds maturing in 100 years as it continues to invest massively in infrastructure for artificial intelligence, according to data published Tuesday by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Silicon Valley internet giant reportedly aims to raise about $20 billion overall, a chunk of it by issuing bonds that mature in February of 2126, with lenders so keen for a piece of the AI action that some $100 billion orders were placed for the debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Alphabet did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Alphabet and AI race rivals including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft are investing staggering amounts in infrastructure to power the technology, banking on it paying off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Market reaction, though, has been mixed with some investors worried spending has gone overboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Century-long bond issues by companies are a rarity, and especially for Alphabet which has ample online ad revenue available to pay for investments rather than resorting to debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">But, the rush to lead in AI has changed the game, calling for unprecedented spending on data centers, energy generation and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Alphabet allocated $91 billion to spending on computing infrastructure last year and has told financial analysts it expects to spend from $175 billion to $185 billion on it this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Alphabet has ramped up longterm debt to handle the spending surge, issuing 50-year bonds late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">While 100-year bonds are not new, it has been decades since US companies have resorted to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Companies such as Disney, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Ford, and Motorola turned to such century-long debt during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">tu-gc\/arp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Century-long bond issues by companies are a rarity, and especially for Alphabet which has ample online ad revenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,1796,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-277724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}