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Topic: financial-stability

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The BIS Warns the $1 Trillion AI Build-Out Is a Financial-Stability Risk

The Bank for International Settlements — the central banks' own institution — used its flagship annual report to warn that the roughly $1 trillion that Big Tech is pouring into AI data centers has become a potential threat to financial stability, with echoes of past investment manias.

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