Nvidia stock climbed 1.6% to $220.94 in premarket trading Tuesday, recovering from a 2.9% drop on Monday when the company first announced its half-trillion-dollar financing initiative.
The plan involves partnering with six major financial institutions to create compute financing platforms. Those partners are Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR.
The goal is to raise more than $500 billion in third-party capital to fund AI infrastructure built around Nvidia hardware.
CEO Jensen Huang announced on X that Nvidia may backstop up to $125 billion of that total, which works out to 25% of potential deals, assessed on a project-by-project basis.
Huang framed it as a way to help customers access computing power at scale. “These financing platforms will help customers access scarce compute at scale and build the AI factories that will power every industry and country in the age of AI,” he said.
The move comes as demand for AI computing capacity continues to climb. Big Tech companies alone are expected to spend more than $730 billion on AI infrastructure this year.
Nvidia has previously made direct investments across the AI ecosystem, particularly in smaller companies that rely on its chips. But its own balance sheet has limits.
By bringing in institutional investors, Nvidia can unlock far more funding for its customers without taking on all the risk itself. Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson wrote that Nvidia “remains almost the sole supplier of infrastructure for non hyperscale/frontier model datacenter builds” and called the fund “another mechanism that likely supports Nvidia’s leadership and growth away from hyperscalers.”
The initiative is aimed at frontier AI developers, enterprises, governments and cloud providers. It is designed to create longer-duration, usage-linked investment opportunities for large asset managers.
Nvidia did not disclose financial terms, individual firm commitments or a timeline for deploying the $500 billion. The Financial Times first reported the development on Monday.
Investors are keeping a close eye on the potential backstop arrangement. Huang’s statement that Nvidia may provide a “residual-value support mechanism” for up to 25% of certain deals suggests the company’s balance sheet is not completely removed from the equation.
That comes on top of reported talks where Nvidia could guarantee up to $250 billion for OpenAI’s lease and debt tied to a large data center in Ohio. The precise terms of any such support mechanism have not been disclosed.
Still, some investors took it as a positive sign that Nvidia is working to maintain its position in AI infrastructure.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought 122,422 NVDA across various exchange-traded funds on Monday, the same day the plan was announced and the stock dropped.
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