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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 11 days ago

Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt

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Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt

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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 11 days ago
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Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
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Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up
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    11 days ago

    Has anyone [of Lemmy/fediverse people here] independently confirmed the numbers? I’m not an investor though, just curious.

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      digging into sources/references I’d take this as a pretty reliable source. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/big-tech-ai-spree-revives-accounting-devices-that-toppled-enron

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    AI, much like Enron, is ‘too big to fail’ (until it does, spectacularly)

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