NVIDIA partners with financiers to fund AI infrastructure

NVIDIA has announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish independent AI compute infrastructure financing platforms.

• The platforms are designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital over time to support the buildout of AI infrastructure and to provide financing for qualified AI labs, enterprises, and AI clouds.
• NVIDIA says the structures are meant to be independent and project-by-project, with institutions assessing customer demand, utilization, cash flow, and residual value; NVIDIA may in some cases provide residual-value support up to 25% of an opportunity.
• The post also frames AI factories as an infrastructure asset and cites pricing examples for NVIDIA compute, including H100 rental pricing and B200 cloud rates; it references NVIDIA products and platforms such as CUDA, A100, and Blackwell.