CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

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CoreWeave, the GPU-heavy cloud provider backed by Nvidia, is seeing its debt trade at distressed levels as investors get cold feet. This sparks fears that the massive capital expenditures funding the AI hardware race might be a private credit bubble waiting to burst. If the plumbing for GPU access clogs up, the entire scaling law trajectory hits a massive financial wall.