AI data center finance is becoming its own serious asset class.
Investment-Grade bonds, project finance, private credit, high yield, now broadly syndicated loans.
The Information just published piece on how Morgan Stanley is now pitching data center developers on the leveraged loan market. Not just project finance, not just bank loans, not just high-yield bonds - now the same loan market that usually funds LBOs (Leveraged Buyout) is being pulled into the AI infrastructure buildout.
Morgan Stanley has estimated AI-related debt issuance could cross $570B in 2026. By end-May 2026, AI-linked borrowing had already reached about $236B, something like 4x the year-ago level.
So this is no longer just hyperscalers issuing investment-grade bonds. The whole debt stack is widening.
Just becasue the funding need is just massive.
So it is more like: contracted AI infrastructure cash flows, packaged into leveraged credit.
CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligation) managers are apparently interested in these data center loans because they get floating-rate exposure, better yield, and in many cases cash flows tied to long-term hyperscaler contracts.
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