Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years (Bloomberg)

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Big Tech’s AI data-center buildout has materially increased leverage, highlighting the financing pressure behind hyperscaler infrastructure expansion.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-10/big-tech-doubles-debt-load-to-350-billion-in-ai-spending-spree"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260710/i19.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260710/p19#a260710p19" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-10/big-tech-doubles-debt-load-to-350-billion-in-ai-spending-spree">Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The largest builders of artificial intelligence data centers have doubled their debt load in the last five years &hellip; </p>