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Will data centers crash the economy? (noahpinion.blog)
6 points by NN88 68 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Kinda weird that an article arguing that we will get a financial crisis from defaults on credit / loans for data centers...doesn't say how much loans to data centers there are...

Of the $100bn capex from the Mag7, I would bet less than 10% is debt financed.

Of the 1% of GDP ($300bn), you are probably talking about less than $50bn.

Then he lists around $10 TRILLION of other debt, of which $1t+ is private credit.

He may have identified the right pipe (private lending) but wrong location...





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