Nvidia said it is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data center projects and related power infrastructure. The effort aims to frame Nvidia’s compute hardware as an investable asset rather than standard depreciating equipment, potentially broadening the pool of institutional financing available to builders of large-scale AI facilities. Jensen Huang described the company’s compute technology as an "investable asset" with cost-saving and revenue-generating potential, while Nvidia may offer residual-value support of up to 25% on select projects to give lenders protection if hardware loses value faster than expected. The partnerships are still subject to final agreements, and the absence of a standardized appraisal framework for valuing data center equipment leaves key questions around risk, lender protections and how closely these financings will resemble traditional infrastructure debt.