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Bond market anxiety is growing over AI capex budgets

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investors are increasingly uneasy about how much capital the ai buildout requires. the bond market shows it: credit spreads on google, amazon, and meta have widened. alphabet's elevated capex forecast pushed yields higher this week, raising fears other hyperscalers could follow.

mizuho analysts wrote friday that capex raises are testing investor limits, with hyperscalers on track to collectively spend more on capex than free cash flow by next year. oracle's 5-year credit default swap is back at a multi-year high, seen as a proxy for ai debt fears. s&p global cut oracle's rating to bbb- earlier this month. meta plans to finance a $12 billion texas data center, expected at a higher borrowing rate than previous projects.

rising power costs are a factor — ge vernova ceo scott strazik expects inflation to persist, and oil broke above $100 a barrel this week.

why it matters: widening credit spreads on big tech signal bond investors doubt ai capex returns, raising future borrowing costs.

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