The hidden debt of the five major American technology giants AI has been exposed to 1.65 trillion US dollars, an increase of 8 times in four years. Will the huge off-balance sheet debt become a time bomb?
Tech giants classify undelivered GPU purchases and unused data center leases as off-balance-sheet items under U.S. GAAP, disclosing them only in footnotes, making it hard for retail investors to see their true debt exposure.
The Nikkei Asian Review found that the hidden debt of Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, metaverse, and Oracle has increased eightfold in four years. In the most recent quarter, it reached $1.65 trillion, far exceeding the on-balance sheet debt of about $1.35tri
CCTV News, on the 21st, it was reported that five American technology giants have soared to $1.65 trillion because of opaque artificial intelligence financing.