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Technology giants are entering the long end of the credit market. Follow financing structures, interest burdens and the cash flows AI investment eventually delivers.
Cheaper models are winning a larger share of AI requests without taking a comparable share of revenue. Providers still need to fund expensive frontier development and infrastructure, leaving an external financing gap between falling prices and rising investment costs.
Strong AI-driven revenue growth sits alongside memory-cost pressure, inflation risks and sensitivity to interest rates.
Sticky inflation, stalled real spending and shifting futures prices complicate the September policy outlook, ahead of statistical revisions.
