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CoreWeave shares, bonds slide as AI debt fears intensify

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Shares and bonds of CoreWeave, one of the largest operators of data centers for artificial intelligence, continued to slide as investor concerns over the sector's debt load intensified. According to CNBC, credit default swaps on the company hit distress levels on Thursday, making it more expensive to buy protection against a default. Le Monde reports that CoreWeave's market value fell 20% in less than two days. The Japan Times notes that the loss-making cloud company carries about $50 billion in debt, while Fortune puts the hole the company needs to climb out of at $52 billion. CoreWeave, which Bloomberg describes as a “neocloud” company running exclusively on Nvidia chips, provides AI processing for OpenAI and Microsoft. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and CoreWeave's own chief executive have downplayed concerns about the company's financial structure, which, according to Bloomberg, helped support its stock. The selloff comes amid broader market doubts about the ability of some tech companies to service the debt taken on to finance the AI buildout.

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Publication timeline

  1. · Channel NewsAsia (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave shares, bonds slide further as AI debt fears mount

  2. · Channel NewsAsia (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave's slump puts spotlight on debt behind AI boom

  3. · MarketWatch (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave investors are feeling spooked, as the company’s stock and bonds see fresh pressure. It’s getting more expensive for investors to buy protection against a CoreWeave default.

  4. · CNBC (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave credit default swaps hit distress levels as investors sour on AI debt. Signs of distressed deepened in CoreWeave on Thursday.

  5. · Le Monde (outlet profile)

    Les craintes suscitées par les dettes des acteurs de l’IA agitent les marchés. CoreWeave, qui construit des data centers, a vu sa valeur boursière fondre de 20 % en moins de deux jours. Les marchés doutent de la capacit…

  6. · Channel NewsAsia (outlet profile)

    Explainer-Why CoreWeave's troubles are rattling the AI boom

  7. · Bloomberg (outlet profile)

    Nvidia CEO Downplays CoreWeave Concerns After Risk Gauge Soars. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow said that equity market investors are looking at CoreWeave's ballooning debt and the cost of maintaining that debt as it reassesses i…

  8. · The Japan Times (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave’s slump spotlights growing burden of debt behind AI boom. The loss-making cloud company has about $50 billion in debt and has become a focus of concerns that the data-center boom is being fueled by credit.

  9. · Channel NewsAsia (outlet profile)

    CoreWeave bond rout tests market's math on AI buildout

  10. · Fortune (outlet profile)

    A look inside the $52 billion hole that CoreWeave needs to climb out of. Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

Factual core

  • CoreWeave's slump has spotlighted the growing burden of debt behind the AI boom.
  • CoreWeave credit default swaps hit distress levels on Thursday.

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