PANews reported that Anthropic is advancing a 60000000000 USD chip debt financing transaction codenamed “Project North Star,” and plans to offer Blackstone a yield exceeding 10%.
PANews cited the Financial Times of the United Kingdom as reporting that KBRA this year June assigned Anthropic an BB+issuer rating, with the related subordinated-debt financing carrying a yield of approximately 8.5%。
Bank of America strategists said that AI the infrastructure debt-financing boom is driving up borrowing costs in developing countries; in the second half of the year, emerging-market USD bonds’ average yield rose by nearly 1 percentage points, while international bond issuance fell to 45000000000 USD。
Bloomberg reported that Tencent Holdings is considering issuing up to 5000000000 USD in offshore bonds as early as this month, potentially denominated in USD and offshore CNY, to support artificial intelligence-related investment.
According to the Financial Times, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley have begun distributing portions of 60000000000 USD debt financing to support Anthropic’s lease of Google chips and acquisition of AI computing capacity.
CleanSpark stated that its subsidiary CSDC Finance I completed the offering of 2276000000 USD senior secured notes, with a coupon rate of 7.875%,2031 due in years.
IMF annual report cites an external estimate that 2026 global AI investment may exceed 2000000000000 USD, and warns that some projects are becoming increasingly reliant on debt financing.