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Private equity and cloud partners are using large debt facilities to bankroll major AI hardware orders. Apollo is preparing a roughly $36 billion debt raise to finance Google chips for Anthropic, while Microsoft's partner IREN secured about $3.6 billion in loans to buy NVIDIA accelerators. These moves reflect a broader trend: companies and investors increasingly leveraging debt to scale AI infrastructure quickly without diluting equity. The pattern underscores growing demand for specialized accelerators, strategic supplier partnerships, and the financialization of AI capacity as firms race to deploy compute-intensive models.
Tech firms and investors are using large debt packages to rapidly scale AI compute without diluting ownership, accelerating deployments of compute-intensive models and altering supplier relationships and procurement strategies.
Dossier last updated: 2026-05-29 00:59:08
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are seeking additional investors to join a roughly $36 billion debt financing package to help Anthropic PBC build AI infrastructure. The financing will be used to buy Google's custom TPUs (tensor processing units), which Anthropic will lease; Broadcom is reported to back the largest portion of payments tied to the chips after helping develop them. The move maps large private-equity capital into AI hardware procurement and off-balance-sheet financing for a major AI startup, highlighting growing finance-to-infrastructure ties that could accelerate model scaling while spreading vendor and operational risk.
Bloomberg : Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. are working to bring additional investors into a roughly $36 billion debt financing deal …
阿波罗正筹备一笔360亿美元的债务融资，用于为Anthropic采购谷歌芯片
微软合作伙伴IREN为采购英伟达芯片借款36亿美元