Nvidia is in talks to provide billions of dollars in credit guarantees to AI cloud provider Nscale to help finance power infrastructure and a West Virginia data centre that Anthropic plans to use, according to The Information. The proposed arrangement has not been signed and its terms could change. Wedbush said the move could sustain financing for AI infrastructure and support demand for Nvidia's chips, since Jensen Huang said about 80% of neocloud capital expenditure goes to Nvidia products. Anthropic agreed in August to spend $45 billion renting computing capacity at the Nscale campus, and Nscale is discussing a second deal of about 460 megawatts with a similar value. Wedbush also noted the timing was notable amid debt-financing concerns at other Nvidia-backed neocloud providers such as CoreWeave and Firmus, while warning that guarantees would carry contingent exposure if projects failed to meet their obligations.
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