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1. Oct 20
   Brookings paper: the $10.3T AI buildout hides off balance sheet

   HuXiu AI summarizes the Brookings Institution's BPEA conference paper "Financing the AI Buildout" (Sept. 24-25, 2026), which estimates US AI infrastructure spending of about $10.3 trillion for 2025-2032, roughly 3.63% of GDP per year. Using Meta's Hyperion campus as a case study, the paper notes about $27 billion of the $30 billion project is debt-financed with a 1.12x debt-service coverage ratio, while Meta's own leverage is around 25% of book equity. Citing Moody's and The Wall Street Journal, the article says Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta carry $2.4 trillion of off-balance-sheet obligations and that only about one-fifth of roughly $3 trillion in data-center obligations appear on the books. It also flags a mismatch between multi-decade infrastructure debt and quickly depreciating compute hardware.

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