NVIDIA Partners with Six Major Wall Street Institutions to Establish $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Financing Platform

TechFlow news, August 11, according to CNBC, NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to jointly establish a financing platform for NVIDIA customers, aiming to mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital for hyperscale data center construction and NVIDIA hardware procurement.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang characterized this as AI chips becoming an "investable asset class" for the first time, stating they possess revenue-generating capabilities, long service lives, and can be transferred between customers, likening compute infrastructure to electricity and the internet. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink defined the project as the "next future of financial engineering" following mortgage securitization in the 1970s, and stated that more funds would be raised as soon as possible. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon revealed that this collaboration was initiated by Jensen Huang. Currently, part of the funds have been raised, and the parties will provide financing support for GPUs and data centers through institutional credit, insurance capital, and private capital, helping end users complete AI infrastructure construction without tapping into their own balance sheets.