{"id":1007762,"date":"2026-05-13T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007762"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:11:01","slug":"tech-companies-tap-debt-markets-to-fund-ai-and-cloud-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/tech-companies-tap-debt-markets-to-fund-ai-and-cloud-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies tap debt markets to fund AI and cloud expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest technology companies are tapping debt markets, as they seek to bolster their artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking a shift for \u200bSilicon Valley firms that typically relied on cash to \u200bfund their investments. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta signaled that spending on AI would not slow \u200bdown, with the tech giants&#8217; combined spending now set to exceed $700 billion this year, up from about $600 billion previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest technology companies are tapping debt markets, as they seek to bolster their artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking a shift for \u200bSilicon Valley firms that typically relied on cash to \u200bfund their investments. Last month, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta signaled that spending on AI would not slow \u200bdown, with the tech giants&#8217; combined spending now set to exceed $700 billion this year, up from about $600 billion previously.<\/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-1007762","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\/1007762","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=1007762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007790,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007762\/revisions\/1007790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}