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Vendor-backed guarantees and off-balance-sheet financing are accelerating data center construction, but cumulative latent liabilities now approach multi-trillion-dollar thresholds.

Impact: Investors must treat vendor backstops as contingent liabilities; balance sheet stress tests should model utilization rate declines and model pricing compression scenarios.

— from AI Infrastructure Financing, Open-Weight Alliances, and Market Saturation · Doppelgänger Tech Talk· Jul 29, 2026