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SoftBank-backed SB Energy is facing a tougher market for its planned data-centre IPO, with investors wary of an AI slowdown and showing lacklustre interest in a new debt sale, the Financial Times reports.
Why it mattersThe useful signal is not that AI demand has vanished, but that the financing story is getting less effortless. Companies building the power and infrastructure behind AI still need investors to believe the boom will pay for itself. The data-centre gold rush has reached the part where someone asks for the receipts.
Discuss: Should AI infrastructure projects be judged on immediate customer demand, or is investor confidence in future computing needs enough to justify the spending now?
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