A hyperscaler sells $25 billion of bonds into $115 billion of demand

Claim

Alphabet sold $25 billion of bonds into $115 billion of peak demand, days after its first ever negative free cash flow and capital guidance of $195 to $205 billion, as a Fed official warned the financing could create a systemic problem and asked whether AI is becoming too big to fail.

Reported metric: $25B into $115B demand

Reporting date: 2026-08-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 6, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)