Some of the biggest financial firms in the world are reportedly getting ready to pour half a trillion dollars into a deal with Nvidia for AI infrastructure buildout. A consortium of Wall Street firms, including heavy hitters like Blackstone, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, is working on a deal with Nvidia that would see the firms invest $500 billion in the AI industry, according to a Financial Times report citing six people briefed on the talks. The details of the deal aren’t clear, but the FT along with reports from Bloomberg and Reuters all claim it could be announced as early as Monday. The report comes on the heels of renewed fears of both Nvidia’s alleged circular dealmaking and the eyewatering financial commitments the overall industry is making on the AI infrastructure buildout. Late last month, Nvidia announced a $500 billion deal with South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix. Shortly after that news was made public, various reports claimed that Nvidia would also make a $250 billion deal with OpenAI to help the AI giant finance its massive, power-hungry 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio, likely to be one of the largest data centers in the world when construction finishes
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Read original at TechCrunch →This article was published on August 17, 2026 Nvidia signed the Ohio deal on Monday and capped its exposure at $105bn, down from the $250bn first reported in July. The cut matters less than the rewrite. The guarantee…
Read original at The Next Web →Nvidia is joining forces with Wall Street to allow its customers borrow more than half a trillion dollars to build AI infrastructure. The US chipmaker announced on Monday that it had signed a preliminary agreement with…
Read original at CNN →Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure Nvidia has struck a deal with six large Wall Street firms to raise more than $500bn (£370bn) to fund the datacentres,…
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View source →Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. OpenAI has lost yet another…
View source →This article was published on August 17, 2026 Nvidia signed the Ohio deal on Monday and capped its exposure at $105bn, down from the $250bn first reported in July. The cut matters less than the rewrite. The guarantee now covers what the…
View source →Nvidia is joining forces with Wall Street to allow its customers borrow more than half a trillion dollars to build AI infrastructure. The US chipmaker announced on Monday that it had signed a preliminary agreement with heavyweight…
View source →Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure Nvidia has struck a deal with six large Wall Street firms to raise more than $500bn (£370bn) to fund the datacentres, chip factories and…
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