TREE NEWS reports: The borrowing spree financing artificial intelligence is shaking investors in the more than $10 trillion US corporate bond market, forcing a repricing of risk around some of the largest technology companies as credit insurance costs spike and volatility rises. Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are among borrowers that have issued nearly $500 billion in new debt this year to fund AI infrastructure. The pace and scale of issuance, combined with uncertainty over the technology and rising rates, is pressuring the sector and pushing investors to demand higher compensation for lending.
AI Debt Boom Rattles $10 Trillion US Corporate Bond Market
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The AI buildout is migrating from equity risk to credit risk, and that changes who bears it. Bondholders now sit behind a technology whose revenue timeline remains unproven, so the spike in credit insurance costs and volatility is a repricing of that exposure rather than a verdict on AI itself. The open question is whether the pace of issuance outruns the cash flows meant to service it, and whether credit markets, not equity markets, become the first place that strain surfaces.
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