Meta weighs big equity raising to finance AI infrastructure, FT reports
Meta is exploring a stock sale to help finance higher AI spending as Big Tech races to build data centers, the FT reported.
- On Friday, Meta Platforms is considering raising tens of billions of dollars in a stock offering to fund artificial intelligence ambitions, the Financial Times reported.
- Meta executives are exploring 'creative' ways to raise cash as the company prepares to sharply boost AI-related expenses, having raised its 2026 capital spending guidance to as high as $145 billion in April.
- The move follows Alphabet's decision to raise $85 billion in equity this week, and Meta shares dropped more than 5% on Friday as investors reacted to the Financial Times report.
- A Meta spokesperson dismissed the report as 'pure speculation,' stating the company has not hired banks and that it remains 'premature' to determine if a stock issuance will occur.
- Big Tech firms are increasingly turning to debt and equity markets to fund infrastructure, marking a shift from their long-standing practice of funding investments largely with cash to meet insatiable artificial intelligence demand.
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Facebook parent company Meta Platforms is considering a share sale worth tens of billions of dollars to further invest in artificial intelligence (AI), reports the British business newspaper Financial Times. According to the newspaper's sources, talks are underway at Meta regarding the share sale.
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The Economic TimesMeta weighs big equity raising to finance AI infrastructure: FT
Meta is considering raising tens of billions of dollars in a stock offering as it seeks new sources of capital to fund the company's AI ambitions, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Meta weighs big equity raising to finance AI infrastructure, FT reports
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