The AI ‘credit card’ is getting costlier as CoreWeave bond yield tops 16%
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Debt markets are sending a message to AI data center builders: we're hiking the interest rate on your credit card and may put some new curbs on your credit limit.
That analogy comes courtesy of Jefferies global head of equity strategy, Christopher Wood, who put it in a note on Friday: "The most plausible way the AI capex arms race will end is that the credit card will be taken away."
That isn't happening yet, but credit markets have been spooked by the new political landscape — seeing more hurdles to data centers under Democratic governors in key states, along with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
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