Retirement savings are fueling the AI data center bubble
AILenore Palladino, an economics professor at UMass Amherst, argues that private equity firms are behind 25-30% of data center financing, drawing on workers' retirement savings. She cites S&P's September warning that hyperscaler credit quality is weakening amid a projected $7 trillion in spending by 2030, much of it debt-financed.
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Original title: Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble