Nvidia said on Monday that it is working with six financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms aimed at raising over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on X that the company has the option to backstop up to $125 billion, or 25% of the potential deals.
“In AI, compute is revenue,” Huang said. “We are bringing the world’s leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure,” the CEO added.
The firms partnering with Nvidia include Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The financing will go towards Nvidia’s own projects and those being built by its partners.
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The funds would be used for infrastructure projects like the construction of new data centers to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that process AI data and actions. The financing will also back new factories to manufacture the AI chips needed to power these systems and increase their availability to buyers.
“Compute has become a critical infrastructure asset,” Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall, co-chief executives of KKR, said in a joint statement. “As we’ve scaled our approach to digital infrastructure, we’ve learned that delivery, not ambition, is the hard part.”
Nvidia said the arrangements would “create dedicated pools of capital at significant scale at attractive rates” for its customers. However, the company did not disclose the financial terms, investment commitments by individual firms or a timetable for deploying the planned $500 billion.
Most major technology companies use Nvidia’s computer chips, or graphics processing units (GPUs), to power their services, AI platforms and AI chatbots.
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“Nvidia is absolutely enormous and produces these chips that everybody needs for AI and it needs to keep facilitating the growth of AI,” Jane Sydenham, senior investment manager at Rathbones, told the BBC.
However, she added: “The worry is that more and more money is going into these projects. Are they all going to earn the right return for the future?”
Last month, reports revealed Nvidia is planning to invest $250 billion along with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in a massive data center project. The company also announced its investment of $1 billion in an AI project by South Korean internet company Naver over the weekend. According to The Wall Street Journal, Naver will issue 7.2 million new shares to Nvidia to raise the money, making Nvidia one of Naver’s largest shareholders with roughly a 4.5% stake. The companies said that they are in talks with Brookfield, a U.S.-based private equity firm to fund around $9 billion for the project while Naver will fund the rest.