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Wall Street is turning AI’s large electricity appetite into a $61 billion bond market
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Every interaction with AI uses electricity in a data center.
Key facts
- The Structured Finance Association's sector review puts average data-center ABS issuance near $600 million and average data-center CMBS issuance near $1.2 billion
- In February, S&P assigned an A(sf) rating to Sabey Data Center Issuer's $475 million 2026-1 notes, backed by real estate and tenant lease payments
- A Barclays projection cited in the report puts outstanding data-center securitizations as high as $180 billion by the end of 2028
- The wider model range runs from 521 to 843 TWh, or 9.5% to 15.3%, depending partly on chip shipments, server use, equipment life, and cooling performance
Summary
01 Wall Street is packaging operating data centers, tenant contracts, and power infrastructure into bonds repaid from customer revenues. 02 The structure turns scarce, deliverable electricity into a credit factor alongside tenant quality, operating costs, and property value. 03 Investors still face uncertain power needs, tenant concentration, costly retrofits, and refinancing risk as facilities and technology evolve. Multiply that process across millions of requests and the electric bill becomes one of the facility's highest costs, while access to enough power determines how much computing the building can support and how much money it can earn. Wall Street is now packaging that income into bonds.