Skip to main content
Gianluca Minella

Gianluca Minella

Head of Research at InfraRed Capital Partners, a leading infrastructure researcher and frequent podcast guest on AI infrastructure and data centres.

Sep 18, 2026

12:48
How is that all going to cook down?
12:50
So this somehow brings us to one of your points in one of the first questions, which was, you know, it's a complex financial ecosystem with different forms of capital or funding AI.
13:03
Here is the important thing to understand.
13:05
We normally see advertised the fact that hyperscalers will be spending around 700 billion dollars.
13:12
um in 2026 on ai and we know that a portion of this 700 billion roughly 30 to 35 will be in data center infrastructure but here is the very interesting fact this only captures what hyperscalers are funding directly through their balance sheet what does it mean they're funding it directly to the balance sheet that they are deploying their free cash flow, so using the liquidity that they generate from other services.
13:39
They've issued a meaningful amount of bonds in the market, around 200-250 billion in 2026 of bonds will be issued by hyperscalers.
13:48
They're becoming the largest issuers in North America at the moment.

8 MINS LATER

21:32
running us

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.