Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTFiona CraigTue, August 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM GMT+2 4 min readNvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has unveiled a strategic partnership with six major financial groups aimed at mobilising more than $500 billion in third-party capital to finance the continued expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure.The initiative brings Nvidia together with Apollo (NYSE:APO), BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), Blackstone (NYSE:BX), Brookfield (NYSE:BAM), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and KKR (NYSE:KKR) to establish independent computing financing platforms.The memorandum of understanding remains subject to definitive agreements. If completed, the initiative would create dedicated pools of capital intended to provide financing at competitive rates across Nvidia's ecosystem, including AI laboratories, enterprises and AI cloud providers.Debt financing takes centre stage in Nvidia AI expansionExecutives from the participating financial groups indicated that debt financing will be a central component of the initiative, providing Nvidia's major customers with another route to fund access to computing capacity.Several potential transactions are already in the pipeline under the proposed commitment."Nvidia has reached a major milestone. We started by building chips; today we're helping create a new class of productive, investable infrastructure: AI factories," Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said."In AI, compute is revenue. Nvidia compute is uniquely suited to this role: it's widely adopted, flexible across models and workloads, fungible and portable across customers and operators, and continuously improved through CUDA software," he added.The initiative effectively extends Nvidia's role beyond supplying the processors that underpin much of the AI industry. By helping connect customers with external financing, the company is seeking to support the capital-intensive infrastructure required to deploy its computing technology at greater scale.Wall Street firms position computing as infrastructureExecutives from Nvidia's financial partners emphasised the growing role of computing capacity as an infrastructure asset.Apollo Chairman Jim Zelter described modern computing as "a scarce and strategic asset class," while BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink said the partnership "combines Nvidia's leadership in accelerated computing with BlackRock's ability to connect long-term capital to essential infrastructure."Blackstone Chairman and COO Jon Gray said the announcement "further reinforces our confidence in Nvidia's platform and the future of AI infrastructure," while Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt said "compute is rapidly becoming the essential layer of infrastructure."Terms and Privacy PolicyEU DSA contactPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore Info