The Kobeissi Letter|11月 09, 2026 19:47
The scale of Big Tech's AI future financial obligations is extraordinary:
Alphabet, GOOGL, Meta, META, Anthropic, Microsoft, MSFT, Amazon, AMZN, Oracle, ORCL, and Nvidia, NVDA, have disclosed a combined $4.49 trillion in off-balance-sheet obligations.
These include future lease payments that have not yet commenced, data-center commitments, equipment purchases, and other contractual obligations.
Alphabet accounts for the largest amount, at $1.08 trillion, followed by Anthropic, at $865 billion, and Meta, at $810 billion.
By comparison, their combined on-balance-sheet obligations total just $758 billion, consisting of long-term debt and existing lease liabilities.
This means off-balance-sheet commitments are nearly 6 times larger than their on-balance-sheet obligations.
In total, these 7 tech companies face ~$5.25 trillion in combined financial obligations.
The AI infrastructure race is facing enormous future financial commitments.
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