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🏭 AI infrastructure financing is slipping from vendor balance sheets to private credit

🏭 AI infrastructure financing is slipping from vendor balance sheets to private credit

Nvidia unveiled $500bn in financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock and other asset managers a day before CoreWeave and Super Micro posted debt-funded earnings beats. AI infrastructure costs are moving from vendor balance sheets to private credit, and the BIS has named it a top systemic risk.

Four men in suits at a CNBC Squawk on the Street desk with laptops, trading-floor screens behind, and a CoreWeave Q2 earnings alert banner.
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator on CNBC after Q2 results left capacity fully sold out, with a $104 billion backlog still expanding on hyperscaler and AI-lab demand. Source

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