{
  "id": 19810037,
  "title": "America’s AI bubble is a Ponzi scheme",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/americas-ai-bubble-is-a-ponzi-scheme",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-13T12:30:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3373996/americas-ai-bubble-ponzi-scheme"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "America’s AI bubble is starting to look like a Ponzi scheme. Artificial intelligence companies increasingly rely on a data centre boom that allows them to raise more money from debt markets. But the midterm elections have swept in state governments sceptical of a mass data-centre buildout. Without the data centres to raise debt, chips don’t ship and the circular financing among AI companies might…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}