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Nvidia Considers Co-Signing a Data Center, Because Selling Chips Now Comes With Homework
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Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars in debt financing for Nscale's planned AI data center in West Virginia, according to reporting by The Information later corroborated by Bloomberg. The proposed arrangement would help Nscale finance electricity and construction at the campus. Anthropic has signed a $44.6 billion contract for the first building alone, according to Nscale's IPO filing. The discussions are not a completed guarantee, and the facility is still planned. Even so, the proposed role is striking: a major chip supplier could also help a customer borrow the money needed to build a place for the chips. That would put Nvidia closer to the financing risk as well as the potential demand for its products. Large infrastructure projects often require elaborate financing, and a guarantee can make a lender more comfortable. In this case, it also illustrates how many pieces of the AI buildout must fit together before a server can answer a question. The hardware needs a building, the building needs electricity, and both need money. The industry likes to talk about frictionless intelligence. Its latest supporting character may be a cosigner carefully reading the loan paperwork.
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