NVIDIA lines up over $500 billion from Wall Street to finance AI data centers

6:00 AM PT · August 11, 2026

NVIDIA announced a partnership with six of Wall Street’s largest asset managers, Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR, to establish dedicated financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in third party capital for AI compute infrastructure. The structure uses compute power itself as collateral, packaged through private offerings and bonds issued by special purpose entities capable of raising tens of billions of dollars at a time, treating data centers as an asset class comparable to commercial real estate or toll roads rather than ordinary corporate debt. Jensen Huang said in a CNBC interview that he approached only these six firms for the commitment and that none of them turned him down, framing NVIDIA’s chips as an ‘investable asset’ in their own right. The move is meant to widen the pool of financing available to NVIDIA’s customers building out AI data centers at a moment when capital expenditure across the industry is climbing into the trillions of dollars annually. It follows a string of similar infrastructure financing arrangements this year and underscores how central NVIDIA has become, not just as a chip supplier but as an architect of how the AI buildout gets paid for.