{"id":1026269,"date":"2026-08-05T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026269"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:05:45","slug":"ai-data-centre-race-builds-1-trillion-lease-burden-for-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/ai-data-centre-race-builds-1-trillion-lease-burden-for-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data-centre race builds $1 trillion lease burden for Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in \u200bfuture payments under leases that have \u200bnot yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence \u200bboom. <\/p>\n<p>The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech&#8217;s AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. <\/p>\n<p>If demand for AI computing continues to surge, the facilities will underpin \u200cthe next phase \u2060of cloud \u2060growth. If it does not, the companies could be left paying for vast amounts of costly, long-lived capacity that is difficult \u200bto shed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in \u200bfuture payments under leases that have \u200bnot yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence \u200bboom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech&#8217;s AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. If demand for AI computing continues to surge, the facilities will underpin \u200cthe next phase \u2060of cloud \u2060growth. If it does not, the companies could be left paying for vast amounts of costly, long-lived capacity [&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-1026269","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\/1026269","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=1026269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026295,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026269\/revisions\/1026295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}