Analysis-AI building boom ripples through inflation-hit Treasury market

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Surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping the Treasury market, with massive spending on data centers and computing equipment rippling through bond yields and inflation expectations. Tech giants pouring hundreds of billions into AI facilities are creating bottlenecks in materials and labor, potentially sustaining elevated price pressures that complicate the Federal Reserve's efforts to tame inflation. Bond traders are adjusting forecasts for interest rates based on whether this capex surge will prove temporary or signal a sustained period of higher growth, and inflation, ahead. The dynamics pit the disinflationary promise of productivity gains from AI against the near-term inflationary costs of building out the infrastructure itself.