AI-CHAT PRIME ECONOMY
Aeg33-1004	WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AIs Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are 3 Trillion And Growing 1.2 Trillion Per Quarter
	Quote:	Each quarter, big tech companies disclose their massive capital expenditures on artificial-intelligence infrastructure, from data centers to chips. But those figures dont come close to expressing the full extent of future spending to which Google parent Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Oracle and many others have committed. That is because a huge swath of their coming financial obligations arent reflected on their balance sheets. Nine top tech companies had some 3 trillion of off-balance-sheet commitments mostly related to AI, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of footnotes in their most recent securities filings. Those obligations are growing faster than traditional "capex," which totaled about 600 billion over the past year they reported, and were about triple what the companies owe under their outstanding leases and long-term borrowings.... And that is before considering the implications of trillions in off-balancesheet commitments. Whether or not the revenues ever arrive, purchase commitments and signed leases cant be canceled, for the most part.
	Comment:	In many ways this is like the Dot-Com boom and bust. Many CEOs said profits dont matter, market share does. And a year later, they were unemployed, their companies bankrupt, and many of them deeply in debt. If the Chinese undercut them, this could take down Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook, maybe Amazon, and Oracle. And it may not even take the Chinese. Way too much hype and not enough practice.
	Article:	https://freedombunker.com/2026/08/17/wsj-catches-up-discovers-ais-off-balance-sheet-liabilities-are-3-trillion-and-growing-1-2-trillion-per-quarter/
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WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AIs Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are 3 Trillion And Growing 1.2 Trillion Per Quarter