Nvidia Launches $500B AI Infrastructure Financing Consortium

Nvidia partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish financing platforms mobilizing over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. CEO Jensen Huang called compute an investable asset class, noting one-year H100 rental pricing rose from $1.70 to $2.35 per GPU-hour between October 2025 and March 2026.