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Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets

A Financial Times report says major technology companies are structuring AI-related deals so that roughly $300 billion in obligations stay off their balance sheets, using guarantees rather than direct debt. The practice raises concerns among analysts and investors that the true scale of corporate exposure to the AI buildout is being understated, echoing pre-crisis off-balance-sheet accounting debates.

Why now: A major FT report on hidden $300 billion AI liabilities is raising fresh concern about tech's debt-financed AI spending boom

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