{"id":1026834,"date":"2026-08-06T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026834"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:48:58","slug":"leases-totalling-1-trillion-from-microsoft-meta-oracle-amazon-and-google-that-analysts-are-calling-liabilities-on-balance-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/leases-totalling-1-trillion-from-microsoft-meta-oracle-amazon-and-google-that-analysts-are-calling-liabilities-on-balance-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Leases totalling $1 trillion from Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Google that analysts are calling &#8216;liabilities&#8217; on balance sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the world\u2019s largest technology companies have locked in roughly $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for data centres, creating a massive wave of upcoming financial commitments to support the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom. According to a report by news agency Reuters, financial disclosures compiled from Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet reveal that these future obligations have already been signed, even though the majority have not yet appeared as formal debt-like liabilities on corporate balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>If enterprise demand for AI infrastructure remains strong, these specialised facilities will power the next phase of cloud expansion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the world\u2019s largest technology companies have locked in roughly $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for data centres, creating a massive wave of upcoming financial commitments to support the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom. According to a report by news agency Reuters, financial disclosures compiled from Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet reveal that these future obligations have already been signed, even though the majority have not yet appeared as formal debt-like liabilities on corporate balance sheets. If enterprise demand for AI infrastructure remains strong, these specialised facilities will power the next phase of cloud expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026834","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026835,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026834\/revisions\/1026835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}