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Debt is at $3 trillion right now: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-issuance/ https://fortune.com/
by atwrk 2mo ago
Debt is at $3 trillion right now: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-issuance/ https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-cap...
Interest alone, at assumed 5%, amounts to about $150 billions per year. That's probably higher than the combined AI revenue of the top 3 providers.
- aurareturn 2mo agoDid you read your own article? It's well less than $3 trillion. Now let's build the model out more. What is the projected revenue, backlog, improvements in existing big tech businesses such as AI helping Meta's ad business?
- atwrk 2mo agoDid you read beyond the headline? It's 1.65 trillion hidden and 1.35 trillion overt - which sums up to 3 trillion.
- aurareturn 2mo agoOk, so they're using footnotes. Can you now analyze backlog? For example, Microsoft and Amazon have backlogs of $1.45 trillion. Not including Google, Oracle, Meta.