{"id":775177,"date":"2026-07-21T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775177\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:29:13","slug":"five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1-65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/775177\/","title":{"rendered":"Five US tech giants&#8217; hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260720N 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\">A Meta data center in the state of Georgia. The company&#8217;s\u00a0off-balance-sheet debt is\u00a0about $420 billion,\u00a0nearly triple its transparent debt. \u00a9 AP<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California &#8212; Hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold in roughly four years to an estimated $1.65 trillion as artificial intelligence investments ballooned, a Nikkei study shows, exceeding actual debt and making it tougher for investors to assess risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows A Meta data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[330651,182,181,507,103570,88013,159,3260,113042,330652,39871,172,74,25],"class_list":["post-775177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-165tn","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-debts","tag-five","tag-funding","tag-giants","tag-hidden","tag-opaque","tag-soar","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}