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12 Aug 2026, 5:01 AM	CNBC Technology	6.5	Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan faces a big risk from China Nvidia has lined up $500 billion in financing through agreements with six major Wall Street firms (BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs) to fund AI infrastructure buildout, treating chips as long-term financial assets. Analysts warn that if China floods the market with low-cost compute, rapid hardware depreciation could crash the collateral values backing these loans, pushing investor yield demands to 11-17%. Why: If Chinese low-cost compute enters the market and accelerates GPU depreciation, cloud compute prices could drop significantly — builders and founders should factor in the possibility of much cheaper inference costs within 1-2 years when making infrastructure and pricing decisions, rather than locking into long-term GPU commitments at today's rates. ai-infrastructure gpu-economics china-competition financing

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12 Aug 2026, 5:01 AM

CNBC Technology

6.5

Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan faces a big risk from China

Nvidia has lined up $500 billion in financing through agreements with six major Wall Street firms (BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs) to fund AI infrastructure buildout, treating chips as long-term financial assets. Analysts warn that if China floods the market with low-cost compute, rapid hardware depreciation could crash the collateral values backing these loans, pushing investor yield demands to 11-17%.

Why: If Chinese low-cost compute enters the market and accelerates GPU depreciation, cloud compute prices could drop significantly — builders and founders should factor in the possibility of much cheaper inference costs within 1-2 years when making infrastructure and pricing decisions, rather than locking into long-term GPU commitments at today's rates.