Capital de TokensHyperion’s debt does not appear in full on Meta’s balance sheet
Watch on YouTube Twenty-seven billion dollars in debt is financing a data center called Hyperion. Meta will use its capacity and has made commitments to back the project, but that debt does not appear in full as Meta’s debt on its balance sheet. The explanation lies in a company created to own the center and raise financing
Twenty-seven billion dollars in debt is financing a data center called Hyperion. Meta will use its capacity and has made commitments to back the project, but that debt does not appear in full as Meta’s debt on its balance sheet. The explanation lies in a company created to own the center and raise financing. Following the money through that company helps us understand a question economist Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh raises in a conversation published by Brookings: who bears the risk of building the physical infrastructure of artificial intelligence? His answer is not that these transactions are fraudulent or that they should be stopped. It is that they can raise capital for large investments while also making it harder to see the full set of obligations connecting tech companies to their financiers.
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