영국 중앙은행(Bank of England)은 아직 입주 기업(테넌트)이 확보되지 않은 프로젝트와 연계된 투기적 데이터센터 대출에 대해 질의하고 있으며, 이 분야의 위험 규모를 파악하려 하고 있다.

The Bank of England has contacted market participants to understand the details of loans to UK data center projects that have no tenants.

Bloomberg reports that the central bank is more broadly seeking to understand lending across the data center industry, where project costs have ballooned as facility scale has expanded.

The questions do not stem from an inherent negative view of speculative lending. Rather, the bank is seeking to understand the level of risk in the sector.

The Bank of England has also been examining the interdependence of data center financing over the past year.

Its Financial Policy Committee warned last month that AI-linked investments' "increasing leverage, opacity and, at times, 'circular arrangements' that can be associated with this financing could complicate the assessment of risks and could amplify losses if expectations disappointed."

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an international financial institution, has also warned that poor disclosure of deal terms means the same data center asset may be pledged repeatedly.