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Dylan Patel on

debt

3 entries, 26 Feb 2026 to 25 Aug 2026

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    1. spoken

      Patel predicts Google and Amazon will take on debt for AI infrastructure following Meta's example.

      “Google and Amazon haven't taken on debt yet for AI infrastructure, but they will. Right?”

      26 Feb 2026 · Latent Space · 33:54 · source · permalink
    2. spoken

      Patel's models show $11 trillion AI CapEx through 2029, requiring over $5 trillion in new debt.

      “In the modeling that we do, we have about $11,000,000,000,000 of CapEx from 2024 to 2029. Total. Total.”

      25 Aug 2026 · Dwarkesh Patel · 54:35 · source · permalink
    3. spoken

      Patel argues Meta could pay 8% interest rates versus current 5-6% because compute returns are enormous.

      “So why wouldn't interest rates Yep. For Amazon go from, you know, from where they are today? I think Meta pay okay, let's like so this is going be extremely lived out.”

      25 Aug 2026 · Dwarkesh Patel · 56:56 · source · permalink

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