
Nvidia weighs guaranteeing Nscale’s West Virginia AI data center debt
A residual-value guarantee would cover Nscale construction debt for a campus whose first building has a $44.6 billion Anthropic contract.
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A residual-value guarantee would cover Nscale construction debt for a campus whose first building has a $44.6 billion Anthropic contract.

Bloomberg sources say a second deal of that size is near, while both companies pursue IPOs.

Only seven to ten providers may remain, while Nvidia's non-hyperscaler sales hit $40 billion in the July quarter.

British AI neocloud Nscale raised $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of a US IPO.

Anthropic signed a seven-year $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal, lifting reported compute commitments past $517 billion.

Nvidia-backed Nscale omitted its largest customer, ByteDance, from its IPO filing despite the Chinese company accounting for 73% of its 2025 revenue.

Nscale's planned NYSE IPO concentrates revenue on Microsoft and Anthropic compute contracts worth about $88 billion.

AI data center startup Nscale appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to its board ahead of a planned fall IPO and reported $3.5 billion raise.

British AI compute provider Nscale seeks $3.5B pre-IPO via $1.5B convertible notes and $2B from Nvidia ahead of a possible September IPO.
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