$200 Billion in AI Debt Was Raised in a Single Year. A New Jim Rickards Presentation Asks Who’s Holding the Risk

The data-center build-out is being financed with record borrowing, much of it private. A former Treasury and Pentagon advisor traces where that risk ultimately lands. Baltimore, MD, June 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Behind the visible race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure sits another race that many investors never see: a borrowing boom measured in hundreds of billions of dollars. Financial researcher Jim Rickards argues that the most important question may not be how many data ce