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AI Infrastructure Financing Has Entered an Unconstrained Arms Race, Warns GoldenTree's Tananbaum

GoldenTree Asset Management's Steve Tananbaum characterizes the current wave of AI capital deployment not as rational market competition but as a compulsive arms race — one where firms fear the cost of falling behind more than the cost of overinvestment. The dynamic is reshaping credit markets, raising systemic leverage questions, and forcing institutional investors to price a new category of binary risk: winner-takes-most AI infrastructure bets. For decision-makers in finance and technology, the signal is clear — the pace of AI spending is being driven by strategic anxiety as much as by return calculus.