Speculative data center debt sold to pension funds draws subprime bubble comparisons
AndrewSchmidtFC · x · 2026-10-21
Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors — in a manner "eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," as William Fitzgibbon put it. Journalist Taylor Lorenz amplified the warning, calling it bad. AI infrastructure financing risk is becoming a systemic financial concern.
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