AI computing power financing heats up, Nvidia-backed Lambda plans to buy GPUs through a $917 million loan

Comparatively, Lambda, an AI cloud computing service provider supported by Nvidia, is raising $917 million through the leveraged loan market to purchase AI chips. As AI infrastructure construction accelerates, chip financing is becoming a new way to invest capital in the AI industry. Lambda belongs to the group of “new cloud vendors” that has developed rapidly in recent years. Its main business is to provide GPU computing power and AI infrastructure services to enterprises and developers.

The financing plan was completed through a loan based on equity related to GPU assets to support the company's expansion of AI computing resources. According to the report, AI infrastructure companies are actively exploring new financing methods to meet the huge capital investment required to build large-scale computing power clusters. Previously, AI cloud service provider CoreWeave completed the first transaction for chip financing in the institutional leveraged loan market, providing a new financing model for the industry. As demand for generative AI continues to grow, Nvidia's GPU supply has become a core resource for AI enterprise expansion. By using GPU assets as a financing basis, AI cloud service providers can rapidly expand the scale of computing power without fully relying on equity financing, while also allowing traditional credit markets to participate in the AI infrastructure investment wave.