Media Archives - CURRENT WIRE https://www.currentwire.in/tag/media/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:50:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 Big Tech Firms Like Oracle Turn to Bonds to Finance A.I. Data Centers https://www.currentwire.in/2026/07/17/big-tech-firms-like-oracle-turn-to-bonds-to-finance-a-i-data-centers/ https://www.currentwire.in/2026/07/17/big-tech-firms-like-oracle-turn-to-bonds-to-finance-a-i-data-centers/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:50:00 +0000 https://www.currentwire.in/2026/07/17/big-tech-firms-like-oracle-turn-to-bonds-to-finance-a-i-data-centers/ But where’s that money coming from? At this point, a major source is firms like Oracle, which has gone on an immense spending spree on A.I. data centers, increasingly selling bonds to raise the money. Oracle is not alone. Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are giant investors in data centers, too. (The industry jargon is […]

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But where’s that money coming from?

At this point, a major source is firms like Oracle, which has gone on an immense spending spree on A.I. data centers, increasingly selling bonds to raise the money. Oracle is not alone. Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are giant investors in data centers, too. (The industry jargon is “hyperscaler.) But their underlying finances are stronger than Oracle’s, and their expenditures have not landed them in the same level of trouble in the markets.

Microsoft, for example, has a Triple-A credit rating — better than the U.S. government’s. Whether Microsoft manages to retain that rating after its splurges on A.I. data centers remains to be seen. “Microsoft is starting from a much better place, financially, than Oracle is,” Mariya Entina, a portfolio manager for DoubleLine, the money management company, said in an interview. “It’s important to have enough information to be able to differentiate.”

These five companies combined are pouring more than $800 billion into A.I. investments this year, and plan to add more than $1.2 trillion in 2027, according to Morgan Stanley. To put that in context, as Robert Armstrong of The Financial Times noted, the U.S. military budget request for 2027 is less than that: $961 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Few people outside the markets have paid attention to what goes on behind the financial curtain for artificial intelligence. These big companies are able to categorize the money as an investment — a capital expenditure — and not as an expense. So under current accounting rules, the bulk of the spending has not yet counted against their gaudy earnings. That is helping to propel the stock market to new heights under rosy assumptions that A.I. will transform the world, and that the companies behind it will be making money.

With the notable exception of Oracle, which has borrowed aggressively for the last couple of years, most of these companies generated so much cash from their main businesses that, until recently, their spending on A.I. data centers barely weighed on the performance of their stock or on the solidity of their underlying finances.



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President Trump’s social media company has a new business venture: selling faster access to the president’s posts.

Trump Media & Technology Group said Thursday that it planned to sell a real-time feed of its influential Truth Social posts starting next month, replacing the need for users to monitor the platform manually.

The product, Truth API, is geared toward algorithmic trading firms for which an edge of mere milliseconds in access to information can be extremely valuable. The service already has customers lined up, Trump Media said in a news release that did not identify those buyers by name.

The main attraction would be Mr. Trump’s posts, which continue to be the primary draw for Truth Social, a platform that otherwise has struggled to gain traction. The president is the biggest shareholder in the platform’s unprofitable parent company, Trump Media, with a stake that is held in a trust managed by his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. That stake was worth more than $1 billion at Thursday’s market close.

Kevin McGurn, Trump Media’s interim chief executive, said in a statement that he expected the product to “become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders.” Other companies offer similar services, including the social media platform X.

A spokeswoman for Trump Media did not respond to questions, including how much Truth API would cost.

There is little doubt that there will be appetite for faster access to Mr. Trump’s posts, said Tyler Gellasch, a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who runs the Healthy Markets Association, a financial industry nonprofit. What is less clear are the rules around charging for faster access to statements from a government official, in this case the president.

“The question really becomes when it’s a government official of any type, can they be monetizing that value themselves?” Mr. Gellasch said.

Truth Media has taken steps recently to diversify into a variety of new businesses, including streaming and cryptocurrency. The company also agreed last year to merge with a nuclear fusion company, a deal that would put the president’s company in competition with other developers in an energy sector that his administration is both supporting and regulating.

Matthew Goldstein contributed reporting.



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