Apollo Global Management is finalizing a 3.4 billion dollar loan to fund an investment vehicle leasi...
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The article updates the xAI case study by detailing a $3.4B structured leasing deal for Nvidia chips, signaling a structural shift in how frontier labs finance compute via private credit and asset-backed leasing.
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Apollo Global Management is finalizing a 3.4 billion dollar loan to fund an investment vehicle leasing Nvidia chips to xAI. This deal supports Elon Musk's AI venture, which recently merged with SpaceX to form a 1.25 trillion dollar entity targeting space-based data centers. By utilizing structured leasing, xAI scales compute while institutional investors transform AI chips into a new infrastructure asset class. This shift shows private credit is now essential to sustaining the industry's 600 billion dollar annual hardware spend. ππ»
