{"id":981654,"date":"2025-12-23T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981654"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:22:08","slug":"ai-spending-spree-drives-global-tech-debt-issuance-to-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/ai-spending-spree-drives-global-tech-debt-issuance-to-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"AI spending spree drives global tech debt issuance to record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global technology companies have ramped up debt issuance this year to record levels, \u200das an intensifying race to \u200bbuild artificial intelligence capacity forces even cash-rich firms to borrow heavily \u2060to fund that investment. <\/p>\n<p>According to Dealogic data, global tech companies issued $428.3 billion of bonds in 2025 through the first week of December. U.S. firms accounted for $341.8 billion, while European and Asian tech companies issued $49.1 billion \u200cand $33 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global technology companies have ramped up debt issuance this year to record levels, \u200das an intensifying race to \u200bbuild artificial intelligence capacity forces even cash-rich firms to borrow heavily \u2060to fund that investment. According to Dealogic data, global tech companies issued $428.3 billion of bonds in 2025 through the first week of December. U.S. firms accounted for $341.8 billion, while European and Asian tech companies issued $49.1 billion \u200cand $33 billion, respectively.<\/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-981654","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\/981654","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=981654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}