Building AI on credit: structures and spillovers
Factual evidence
What the source reports
The BIS FSI published research on the growing use of long-term debt and off-balance sheet structures to finance AI infrastructure.
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- Inclusion basis
- AI in finance
- Publisher and source type
- BIS FSI Research · REGULATION POLICY
- Published by source
- 27 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 28 Oct 2026, 02:02 UK
- Original headline
- Building AI on credit: structures and spillovers ↗
Stored source excerpt
Capital expenditure to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is growing fast, and a rising share is financed with long-term debt and through complex off-balance sheet…
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Institutional assessment
So what
Complex leverage and off-balance sheet debt for AI data centres introduce systemic counterparty and credit risks for financial institutions.
Do what
Review credit risk exposures and indirect leverage associated with AI infrastructure and debt-financed data centre developments.