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“Alphabet Raises Record $3.6 Billion in Japan to Fuel Massive AI Expansion” 🚨🚨🚨

Alphabet has officially shattered records in Japan’s bond market, raising 576.5 billion yen — approximately $3.6 billion — in the largest Japanese yen bond sale ever completed by a foreign company.

The mega-deal was split across seven tranches with maturities ranging from 3 years all the way to 40 years, allowing Alphabet to secure borrowing rates starting as low as 1.965%. The move highlights just how aggressively the tech giant is tapping global debt markets to finance its next phase of growth: artificial intelligence.

This latest raise follows a series of enormous debt offerings in both the US and Europe, bringing Alphabet’s recent capital raises to nearly $60 billion over the past few months. While the company officially stated the funds are for “general corporate purposes,” Wall Street widely expects the cash to be directed toward AI infrastructure, including data centers, custom chips, cloud expansion, and next-generation AI models.

Alphabet’s AI spending spree is becoming one of the biggest in corporate history. The company’s projected 2026 capital expenditures are expected to reach a staggering $190 billion as competition intensifies against rivals like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

Investors are increasingly viewing AI infrastructure as the new arms race of Silicon Valley, with hyperscalers pouring unprecedented amounts of money into compute power, semiconductors, and cloud capacity. Alphabet’s record-breaking Japan bond deal signals the company has no intention of slowing down.