JPMorgan raises AI infrastructure investment forecast to $5.5 trillion, with giants like Nvidia shifting toward debt financing

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Mars Finance News, JPMorgan strategist Tarek Hamid and his team, in a recent research report, have raised their total investment forecast for AI infrastructure construction by 2030 to $5.5 trillion, up $400 billion from their forecast in November last year. The bank pointed out that in this massive data center investment race, about $4.1 trillion will come from debt financing, with loans covering an average of 85% of the total project cost, indicating that AI capital expenditure has shifted toward a debt market-centered financing model. Since November last year, the global issuance of bonds related to AI and data centers has exceeded $300 billion. The latest typical case comes from chip giant NVIDIA, which completed a $25 billion investment-grade bond issuance pricing this Monday, marking its first return to the bond market in five years. The issuance was conducted in seven tranches (ranging from 2 to 30 years), attracting up to $85 billion in oversubscription, with the final issuance size increased by 25% from the initial target. The research report emphasizes that although tech giants like NVIDIA, Alphabet, and Amazon are reaping substantial cash flows from the AI boom (such as NVIDIA's estimated free cash flow exceeding $200 billion this fiscal year), they still choose to issue bonds worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This indicates that such bond issuance is not due to a "lack of funds," but that the credit market is actively pricing and confirming AI assets.
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