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3 Nov 2025

Dave Novosel: The trillion-dollar AI gamble: Off-balance-sheet "ghost debt" is piling up, with the devil hiding in the SPV?

Currently, regarding the trend of tech giants increasingly using SPVs for financing, Gimme Credit senior analyst Dave Novosel believes that the use of SPVs is more of a strategy to cope with the surge in new debt, rather than a concern about the health of tech giants' balance sheets.

He explained that using a SPV not only achieves debt separation but also isolates the risks of specific projects, providing investors with more investment options. Mega-corporations and other issuers of large-scale bonds possess extremely strong creditworthiness, thus enabling them to easily raise funds in the capital markets.