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Wall Street Just Turned Nvidia's Chips Into an Asset Class — and Nvidia Offered to Backstop a Quarter of the Loans
Nvidia signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to launch compute financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. Jensen Huang said Nvidia has the option to backstop up to $125 billion — 25% — of the potential deals. For the first time, institutional investors are treating AI compute itself as an investable infrastructure asset class with long-duration, usage-linked returns.
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