{"id":1046222,"date":"2026-10-31T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046222"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:48:48","slug":"metas-ai-spending-has-cost-its-rating-sp-downgrades-aa-credit-outlook-to-negative-as-ability-to-monetize-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/metas-ai-spending-has-cost-its-rating-sp-downgrades-aa-credit-outlook-to-negative-as-ability-to-monetize-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s AI spending has cost its rating? S&amp;P downgrades AA- credit outlook to Negative as \u2018ability to monetize limited\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P Global Ratings on Friday downgraded Meta&#8217;s AA- credit rating to Negative, in an \u201cearly step\u201d amid growing pressure from the tech giant&#8217;s increased artificial intelligence (AI) related expenditures, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P in a statement said the AI spending related strain on Meta&#8217;s balance sheet and rising leverage (earnings relative to debt) were key factors that led to the decision, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P Global Ratings on Friday downgraded Meta&#8217;s AA- credit rating to Negative, in an \u201cearly step\u201d amid growing pressure from the tech giant&#8217;s increased artificial intelligence (AI) related expenditures, Bloomberg reported. S&amp;P in a statement said the AI spending related strain on Meta&#8217;s balance sheet and rising leverage (earnings relative to debt) were key factors that led to the decision, it added.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046222","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=1046222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046223,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046222\/revisions\/1046223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}