{"id":230642,"date":"2026-02-05T22:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/tech-companies-showing-signs-of-distress-as-they-run-out-of-money-for-ai-infrastructure"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:09:22","slug":"tech-companies-showing-signs-of-distress-as-they-run-out-of-money-for-ai-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/tech-companies-showing-signs-of-distress-as-they-run-out-of-money-for-ai-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"Tech Companies Showing Signs of Distress as They Run Out of Money for AI Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-companies-showing-signs-of-distress-as-they-run-out-of-money-for-ai-infrastructure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI companies are looking to spend trillions of dollars on data centers to power their increasingly resource-intensive AI models \u2014 an astronomical amount of money that could <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/entire-economy-ai-bubble\">threaten the entire economy<\/a> if the bet doesn\u2019t pay off.<\/p>\n<p>As the race to spend as much money as possible on AI infrastructure rages on, companies have become increasingly desperate to keep the cash flowing. Firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Oracle are exhausting existing debt markets \u2014 including junk debt, private credit, and asset-backed loans \u2014 in increasingly desperate moves, as <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/3-trillion-ai-data-center-110030774.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a>, that are raising concerns among investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers are like nothing any of us who have been in this business for 25 years have seen,\u201d Bank of America managing head of global credit Matt McQueen told <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. \u201cYou have to turn over all avenues to make this work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI companies are looking to spend trillions of dollars on data centers to power their increasingly resource-intensive AI models \u2014 an astronomical amount of money that could threaten the entire economy if the bet doesn\u2019t pay off. As the race to spend as much money as possible on AI infrastructure rages on, companies have become [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}