By AJ Dellinger
Publication Date: 2026-02-10 19:30:00
Do you think you’ll still be using Google in the year 2126? Bond investors are betting you will be. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is selling a 100-year note as part of a massive debt raise meant to help pay for the company’s massive AI buildout.
According to a report from Bloomberg, in the last 24 hours, Alphabet has managed to secure about $32 billion in funding by selling bonds of various currencies—effectively IOUs that’ll get paid back with interest—including $20 billion in US dollar bonds spread across seven different tranches that come due at different times. Some will need to be paid back in as little as three years from now, some pushing out 40 years—a long lead time, but still shorter than Trump’s proposed 50-year mortgages.
Alphabet’s bond sell-off attracted a significant amount of attention—so much so that the terms seemingly turned out even more favorable than Google had imagined. Per Bloomberg, the company set out to raise…
