{"id":1037156,"date":"2026-09-21T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037156"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:10:04","slug":"who-is-paying-for-the-ai-race-goldman-sachs-flags-a-rising-global-cost-of-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/who-is-paying-for-the-ai-race-goldman-sachs-flags-a-rising-global-cost-of-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is paying for the AI race? Goldman Sachs flags a rising global cost of capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A global scramble for money to fund artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and rising government borrowing are driving up the cost of capital worldwide, forcing companies to tap debt and equity markets more aggressively, according to a new report by Goldman Sachs. <\/p>\n<p>The bank says a surge in AI-related capex has eaten into free cash flows, while governments are borrowing more for infrastructure, energy security and defence, together lifting funding costs across the private and public sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global scramble for money to fund artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and rising government borrowing are driving up the cost of capital worldwide, forcing companies to tap debt and equity markets more aggressively, according to a new report by Goldman Sachs. The bank says a surge in AI-related capex has eaten into free cash flows, while governments are borrowing more for infrastructure, energy security and defence, together lifting funding costs across the private and public sectors.<\/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-1037156","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\/1037156","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=1037156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037191,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037156\/revisions\/1037191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}