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Nvidia partners with six Wall Street firms to mobilize $500B for AI buildout

The deal turns computer chips into loan collateral, letting AI companies borrow instead of self-funding data centers.

• Nvidia signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build financing platforms aimed at mobilizing over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure.
• Nvidia makes the GPUs that power most AI systems; the new platforms let its hyperscaler, AI-lab and enterprise customers borrow to buy chips and build data centers without tapping their own balance sheets.
• The structure treats compute like commercial real estate or toll roads, using GPU-backed revenue streams as collateral for institutional lenders, insurers and private capital.
• Nvidia points to its 2020-era A100 chip, still in active commercial use six years later, as evidence that GPUs can hold long-term economic value rather than depreciate quickly like typical hardware.
• Major Nvidia customers -- including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic -- have collectively spent over $1 trillion on AI infrastructure in just three years.
• Analysts caution the plan hinges on an unproven assumption: whether AI chips retain resale and revenue value as newer generations arrive, or whether lenders end up holding depreciating collateral.
• By pulling Wall Street credit markets into AI buildouts, Nvidia could accelerate data center construction well beyond what tech balance sheets alone could fund, while also spreading compute-value risk across the financial system.