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AI borrowers face tough sell in risky corners of US credit market

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1vuio0pswjnm7 · 1790833617 · focus · HN ↗
KKR warns of growing credit market risks from AI borrowing spree ඞ <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/33449ea5-428b-4080-bdf6-ff5843bbd3cd" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/33449ea5-428b-4080-bdf6-ff5843bbd...
1vuio0pswjnm7 · 1790837694 · focus · HN ↗
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-c...
1. Frieren · 1790850327 · focus · HN ↗
  All Americans are subsidizing AI data centers. If the gambit works then billionaires will be come trillionaires. If it fails Americans will still be the ones to pay the bill. Privatize profits, socialize costs.
  Billionaires are not capitalists they are aristocracy.
  1. yvdriess · 1790862914 · focus · HN ↗
    Meritocracy, in its originally intended pejorative meaning.
2. lotsofpulp · 1790852051 · focus · HN ↗
  It’s difficult to define research, but the spending seems to accomplish the goal of the tax credit:
  <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31181" rel="nofollow">https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31181
  1. orwin · 1790853177 · focus · HN ↗
    We have now multiple studies in France that show that R&D tax credits do not have any meaningful impact on actual research and new patent, and show that they have the most impact on hiring for 'PME' (small and medium companies) per euro credited.
    I'm not against tax breaks for R&D, but they shouldn't benefit Facebook.
    lotsofpulp · 1790855123 · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe, but I am hesitant to accept the findings of the studies given the enormous success of US R&D over the previous few decades, including by large businesses.
    Balinares · 1790858984 · focus · HN ↗
    Your example supports the thesis that R&D tax credits are in fact decorrelated from R&D successes so I'm confused what point you are trying to make.
    lotsofpulp · 1790863345 · focus · HN ↗
    The US has long offered R&D tax credits, and the US has outputted lots of new products due to R&D during that timeframe seems like a positive correlation to me (not that it is proof of causation).

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