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ORCLNew money for the AI arms race
Oracle is reportedly talking to Apollo and Goldman Sachs about financing its AI-chip purchases, in a setup that sounds a little like buying a yacht with a second mortgage. The headline number here is the debt pile: more than $169 billion, which tells you this isn’t a casual “let’s test the AI waters” move.
Why Nvidia investors should care
This isn’t just Oracle doing finance acrobatics for fun. It’s a signal that the biggest AI customers are still willing to lever up to get their hands on Nvidia hardware. If the funding faucet stays open, Nvidia’s demand story stays loud — even if it’s increasingly being powered by Wall Street plumbing instead of old-fashioned free cash flow.
The catch
That also means the AI boom is getting more dependent on debt markets, private credit, and banks willing to play middleman. If those lenders get squeamish, the whole “infinite GPU appetite” narrative gets a reality check.
Big picture: Nvidia bulls can still point to monster demand, but the invoice is starting to look less like a sales boom and more like a financing experiment with GPUs attached.