{"id":991230,"date":"2026-02-11T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991230"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:26:01","slug":"alphabet-to-sell-rare-100-year-bond-to-fund-ai-expansion-bookrunner-memo-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/alphabet-to-sell-rare-100-year-bond-to-fund-ai-expansion-bookrunner-memo-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet to sell rare 100-year bond to fund AI expansion, bookrunner memo shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet is set to price a rare 100-year bond, \u200da memo from the lead manager seen by Reuters showed, as artificial intelligence-driven spending sparks a surge in borrowing at US \u2060tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>The company is selling 5.5 billion pounds ($7.53 billion) worth of sterling bonds in a five-part deal, according to the memo. The 100-year tranche aims to raise 1 billion pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet&#8217;s sale of the century bond is the tech industry&#8217;s first since Motorola&#8217;s 1997 \u200cissuance, according to \u200cmedia reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet is set to price a rare 100-year bond, \u200da memo from the lead manager seen by Reuters showed, as artificial intelligence-driven spending sparks a surge in borrowing at US \u2060tech giants. The company is selling 5.5 billion pounds ($7.53 billion) worth of sterling bonds in a five-part deal, according to the memo. The 100-year tranche aims to raise 1 billion pounds. Alphabet&#8217;s sale of the century bond is the tech industry&#8217;s first since Motorola&#8217;s 1997 \u200cissuance, according to \u200cmedia reports.<\/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-991230","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\/991230","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=991230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}