{"id":1006215,"date":"2026-05-01T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006215"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:47:36","slug":"meta-raises-25-billion-in-bond-sale-after-lifting-ai-spending-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/meta-raises-25-billion-in-bond-sale-after-lifting-ai-spending-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta raises $25 billion in bond sale after lifting AI spending plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms sold investment-grade bonds worth $25 billion in six portions, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday, as the social media giant ramps up investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The news follows a $30 billion bond sale last year that was Meta&#8217;s biggest ever. Like \u200cits Big \u2060Tech rivals, \u2060Meta is increasingly tapping debt to fund its AI ambitions after years of relying on strong cash flows to fund expansion into new technologies. <\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Meta had raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $10 billion to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion. Overall, Big Tech is now expected \u2060to spend \u200cmore than $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms sold investment-grade bonds worth $25 billion in six portions, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday, as the social media giant ramps up investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The news follows a $30 billion bond sale last year that was Meta&#8217;s biggest ever. Like \u200cits Big \u2060Tech rivals, \u2060Meta is increasingly tapping debt to fund its AI ambitions after years of relying on strong cash flows to fund expansion into new technologies. A day earlier, Meta had raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $10 billion to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion. Overall, Big Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006234,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006215\/revisions\/1006234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}