Nvidia
What Nvidia is up to now
Became the buildout's lender of last resort — the figures now resolved as three: $250B guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio site ($500B total project cost) + a separate ~$350B chip-financing track — plus $5B into pre-product SSI and talks to backstop a 10GW Ohio megasite (SB Energy/SoftBank). Its own CDS printed a record single-day widening as the market repriced the guarantor (07-28).
as of 2026-07-28
ANOMALY, do not force. Owns the resource layer par excellence and holds half the industry as tributaries, but ships no model line. Dual-filed resource-layer — the ambiguity IS the circular-financing thesis.
The metrics
- Posture high
- expanding 1 src →
- Capital · available high
- ~$80.6B readily-liquid (cash $13.2B + marketable securities $67.3B); ~$200-300B commandable/12mo; near-zero net debt (total debt $8.5B) 2 src →
- Capital · operating high
- ~$119B/yr FCF (TTM to Apr-2026); FY2026 FCF $96.7B 1 src →
- Capital · deployed high
- $80B buyback authorization; ~$30.2B strategic equity stakes in its own buyers (circular-financing loop); dividend $0.25/qtr (small) 1 src →
- Capital · in high
- FY2026 revenue $215.9B (Data Center $193.7B); Q1 FY27 DC $75.2B/qtr (~$300B run-rate) 1 src →
- Capital · out med
- modest capex (fabless), $80B buybacks authorized, ~$30B strategic equity into buyers, small dividend 1 src →
- Optionality high
- free — no fiduciary mandate, near-zero leverage; ~$30B constrained slice = strategic equity in its own buyers (the circular-financing loop) 1 src →
- Gravity med
- ~$1.0T/yr GROSS orbiting AI-infra (Nvidia DC run-rate + the hyperscaler capex it anchors); ~$1T Blackwell+Rubin order book (mgmt aggregate, not audited) 2 src →
Holdings
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Dependents
This week — what changed
- The guarantee's market verdict: NVDA −4%, credit-default swaps wider — "AI stocks crash" headlines; the $250B/$500B/$750B figure is inconsistent across outlets, unresolved. (CNBC · Axios)
- Nvidia −4%, credit-default swaps wider, on its own $250B guarantee — "AI stocks crash" headlines; Axios: "reignites circular financing concerns"; bond desks re-pricing "$1T+/yr of AI." CoreWeave/Nebius rose on the constructive read. (CNBC · Axios)
- KKR launched a $10B "Helix" AI-infrastructure venture backed by Kuwait's sovereign fund, Nvidia, and Vistra — the asset-manager buildout position keeps growing. (via Google News)
- The guarantee firmed to $250B (WSJ/Reuters/CNBC) — and the market answered: NVDA −5%, CDS record single-day widening.
- Nvidia committing $5B to Safe Superintelligence — pre-product, a "long-term strategic partnership" (Bloomberg/Reuters). The stake ladder extends to a company with no product.
- Nvidia in talks to backstop up to $500B for a 10GW Ohio megasite (SB Energy/SoftBank; largest single-site figure on the map). The weekend's figure tangle resolves as THREE numbers: $250B guarantee · $500B total project · $350B separate chip-financing. Microsoft, Google, Anthropic are interested tenants, not backers — "Microsoft-backed" headlines overclaim. (CNBC)
- NVDA −5% · CDS record single-day gain on the firmed $250B guarantee.
- Nvidia → SSI $5B — vendor capital into a pre-product lab (~$32B valuation, zero commercial product).
- The Ohio figure tangle resolved as three numbers: $250B guarantee · $500B total Piketon-site cost · $350B separate Nvidia chip-financing.
Projects & threads
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CoreWeave Bet
financing
— open · last seen 2026-07-28
· 11 entries
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Circular Financing
capital flow
— developing · last seen 2026-07-28
· 9 entries
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Nvidia's Order Book
capital flow
↳ Compute Spend
— open · last seen 2026-07-26
· 7 entries
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Hyperscaler Capex
buildout race
— open · last seen 2026-07-28
· 6 entries
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Nvidia as Lender
financing
— open · last seen 2026-07-28
· 4 entries
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Compute Spend
resource move
↳ Where the Capex Lands
— open · last seen
· 3 entries
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Where the Capex Lands
buildout race
— open · last seen
· 2 entries
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