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Steve Tananbaum, founder and CEO of GoldenTree Asset Management, sits down with Bloomberg Technology to give a credit investor’s perspective on AI infrastructure financing, characterizing the current buildout as an “arms race” and drawing historical parallels to overinvestment cycles in undersea cable and riverboat gambling. The conversation moves from broader credit market positioning — Tananbaum had called for underweighting credit versus equities at Davos in January 2026, a call that proved correct — into AI-specific investment strategy.
Tananbaum is neither bullish nor bearish in a simple sense: he acknowledges that sitting out AI infrastructure investment entirely would mean forgoing two to three years of returns. His approach is deliberate positioning — seeking additional assurances from users committed to infrastructure projects, and watching for moments when investment-grade AI assets trade at below-investment-grade spreads, a dynamic he expects to eventually materialize as supply accumulates. He also flags distressed software and telecom as sectors whose business models are being disrupted by AI, noting the disconnect between public equity prices for companies like Comcast and Charter at 52-week lows versus debt that hasn’t fully repriced.
The interview addresses the public versus private securities question in AI-adjacent credit, how GoldenTree manages nimbleness in less-liquid instruments, and the discipline of narrowing focus to a few key variables in a space where information overload is a real risk. Tananbaum’s framing of AI infrastructure as a potential bubble-in-formation — while still investable if priced right — provides a credit market lens rarely covered in AI-focused media.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published June 03, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
