Meta to sell $95bn of shares to fund AI.
Meta plans to raise $95bn, about £71bn, by selling new shares to pay for its AI building, The Guardian reports. The big platforms can pay with shares; the smaller firms that rent out AI computing are finding money harder to borrow1.
Meta to sell $95bn of shares to fund AI
Meta has announced plans to raise $95bn, about £71bn, by selling new shares to cover its spending on AI, The Guardian reports1. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is putting multibillion dollar sums into datacentres1. Meta said the money would support its "continued investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence"1.
The raise comes in two parts1. In the first, Meta plans to raise $35bn through underwritten public offerings, a sale of company stock1. The chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have shown interest as cornerstone investors and could buy up to $5bn of it, Meta said1.
In the second, Meta plans a $60bn at-the-market offering, selling new common stock to investors at the going market rate over time1. Those are Meta's new class C shares, which it said the week before it was creating1. They carry no voting rights, so they can be sold without diluting Mark Zuckerberg's control of the company1.
The announcement came on the same day Elon Musk said debt markets had almost entirely shut off money to firms without substantial revenue outside AI datacentres1. Shares in Nebius fell on his remarks and closed more than 3% down1. Neil Wilson, an analyst at Saxo UK, said Meta would not struggle to service debts and could lean on share sales to keep its borrowing down1.
Who pays for the computers you rent
No British regulator or buyer features in this story, and nothing in it changes what a UK company pays for AI today. What it shows is how the money behind AI is splitting. A company with large earnings outside AI, such as Meta, can sell shares by the tens of billions and keep its founder in charge. A firm that only rents out AI computing has to borrow, and borrowing has become harder.
That matters to you only through your suppliers. Most AI tools a UK business buys run on someone else's computers, and the firm behind them may be a giant paying with shares or a smaller one living on loans. It is a fair question to ask a supplier which it is, and what happens to your service if its landlord changes hands. None of that needs a lawyer, just a straight answer.
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