Nvidia teams with six Wall Street firms to mobilize up to $500 billion for AI infrastructure financing
Nvidia announced a collaboration with six major investment firms—Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR—to assemble financing that could total up to $500 billion. The capital is intended to help customers build AI data centers and purchase Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia said it would provide residual‑value support of up to 25 percent on select deals, covering part of any depreciation gap. The partners expect to issue debt instruments tied to compute capacity, though details on timing and structure remain unclear.
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The financing could give AI developers and enterprises broader access to Nvidia’s GPUs, shaping the pace of AI infrastructure growth.
How this story developed
- Aug 10 Nvidia talks $500 billion AI infrastructure funding with major Wall Street firms
- Aug 11 Nvidia moved from talks to announcing memorandums of understanding with six firms.
- Aug 13 Nvidia said the financing will be structured as debt instruments that use compute capacity as collateral.
- Aug 14 Nvidia announced up to 25 percent residual‑value support on select GPU financing deals.
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