Jamie Dimon says AI build-out could help unleash 'skunk at the party' for the world economy David Hollerith Senior Reporter Thu, August 6, 2026 at 6:17 AM PDT 2 min read JPM JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) CEO Jamie Dimon warned on Wednesday that heavy demand for capital could keep inflation elevated, spurring higher-for-longer interest rates. "Inflation is both what people expect, but it's also capital demand, and it seems to me there's a lot of demand for capital," he said in a Wednesday CNBC interview. More from Yahoo Scout What factors could drive higher-for-longer interest rates? How is AI data center spending affecting capital demand? Why did the Federal Reserve face dissent recently? What leverage risks concern JPMorgan's CEO currently? Dimon said "huge infrastructure requirements," global deficits, wars, and remilitarization could add inflationary pressure and push up longer-term bond yields. "I don't know if these things will push the rate up, but if they do, that could be the skunk at the party, that people want to be paid more money for long-term bonds, and so you just got to keep your eye on it," he noted. Last week, the Federal Reserve held interest rates at the current range of 3.5% to 3.75%. Three of its members dissented in favor of a quarter-point hike. Dimon's warning echoes the argument made by one of those dissenters. Cleveland Fed president Beth Hammack said in a statement last Friday that she sees higher energy prices and inflationary pressures coming from the demand side. JPMorgan Chase CO Jamie Dimon speaks during the "Liberty Lights" event at the Statue of Liberty in New York City, on July 1, 2026. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) ANGELA WEISS via Getty Images A major source of capital demand is coming from the massive AI data center build-out, with Google parent company Alphabet ( GOOG , GOOGL ) looking to raise a fresh $25 billion on Thursday. Hyperscaler capital spending is expected to rise from 1.4% of US gross domestic product in 2025 to 3.1% in 2027, according to consensus data compiled by Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk. The increase 0.85 percentage points annually is roughly twice the pace of the US housing boom at its peak. (Disclosure: Yahoo is a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.) "It's a big build," Dimon said, adding that companies are making real calculations about the growing demand for AI models. "Hopefully there'll be more productivity after they're built," he said. "It takes a while to get them up and running." Big Tech is about to spend trillions to dominate the AI era Tech's AI debt boom, in one chart Google raises capex growth expectations again Dimon raised a separate issue on leverage. Across markets including prime brokerage, hedge funds, exchange-traded products, and Treasury market arbitrage leverage "is pretty high." In late July, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs ( GS ), and others sought increasingly large amounts of collateral from hedge fund Situational Awareness. The former highflier was facing...
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