{"id":823468,"date":"2026-11-04T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/823468\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:28:20","slug":"us-tech-giants-hidden-ai-debt-swells-90-to-3-2tn-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/823468\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech giants&#8217; hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2tn in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20261103N AI data center\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">An Amazon data center in the U.S. state of Indiana. Tech giants are pouring money into such AI infrastructure. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>KOHEI YAMADA<\/p>\n<p>November 4, 2026 05:02 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California &#8212; U.S. tech giants&#8217; off-balance-sheet debt from artificial intelligence-related obligations continues to balloon, almost doubling in six months to about $3.2 trillion, with investors increasingly alarmed by seemingly unending spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon data center in the U.S. state of Indiana. Tech giants are pouring money into such AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270152,1949,256584,554,84,460,59,198256,40402,4025,175631,227,56,54,55,741],"class_list":["post-823468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-32tn","tag-1949","tag-256584","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-gb","tag-giants","tag-hidden","tag-months","tag-swells","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}