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886 Cash-Hungry Data Centers Embrace a New Source of Debt

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Miles Kruppa @ The Information · 05/12/2025 09:00 EDT

Cash-Hungry Data Centers Embrace a New Source of Debt

In the race to fund the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure, data centers have turned to one of the biggest pots of money on Wall Street: the securitized lending business.

It’s a $2 trillion market that could help satisfy AI’s insatiable need for cash and that would spread the risk of the unprecedented boom in data centers across the financial sector.

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