UCLA Warns Bay Area Hyperscalers’ Data-Center Debt Carries Recession Risk
Why this matters
Capital markets activity continues to be defined by the rotation from bank balance sheets to non-bank lenders. Private credit funds have raised record dry powder; banks have tightened CRE underwriting standards for the sixth consecutive quarter. The result is a market where well-sponsored deals clear, and marginal credit pays a meaningful spread to do so. San Francisco continues to clear office at the deepest discounts to 2019 basis seen in the cycle, while multifamily fundamentals have stabilized and life sciences in the Peninsula remains active. For LPs, the allocation conversation has shifted decisively toward real estate debt, with equity allocations being deployed more selectively into operator-led platforms.
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- Disclosed capital deal value tracked in September 2026: $11.7B across 32 reported transactions.
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A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the fast-growing debt financing the AI data-center boom, much of it carried by Bay Area hyperscalers Meta and Alphabet, could force a broad revaluation of tech equities…
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