The scale of AI capital expenditure now actively distorts sovereign macroeconomic indicators.
Massive corporate borrowing and high-tech imports for artificial intelligence buildouts are driving up government bond yields and widening national trade deficits.
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AI capex borrowing, not the business cycle, is now the marginal bidder pushing Treasury yields to 2007 highs — a sovereign macro indicator distorted by AI capital spending.
It highlights how the immense demand for AI hardware is distorting semiconductor supply chains and causing severe manufacturing bottlenecks.
It proves that massive corporate spending on AI hardware imports is driving a historic goods trade deficit.
The Fed now formally elevates AI infrastructure spending into a standing inflation driver alongside tariffs and the war, projecting above-target inflation through 2029.