NVIDIA rallies $500B for AI infrastructure with 6 giants

NVIDIA has announced a landmark partnership with six financial powerhouses—Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Corporation, Goldman Sachs, and KKR—to mobilize over $500 billion in private capital for AI infrastructure. The initiative aims to address the soaring demand for compute power by facilitating financing for data centers and AI projects across developers, businesses, governments, and cloud providers.

Under the agreement, NVIDIA will commit up to $125 billion (25% of the total potential funding pool), ensuring long-term access to financing for its customers and reinforcing demand for its AI computing solutions. This comes as global AI infrastructure spending is projected to exceed $730 billion this year, driven by hyperscalers and enterprises racing to deploy AI models at scale. The collaboration underscores NVIDIA’s push to expand its ecosystem beyond hardware, embedding itself deeper into the financial and operational lifeblood of AI deployment.