Nvidia joins $500B push to finance AI data centers

2 min. læsning•11. aug. 2026•

Nvidia and six financial firms have announced financing platforms intended to raise more than $500 billion in outside capital for AI data centers, a plan first reported by Forbes. The plan would test whether fast-aging AI hardware can be financed like durable infrastructure when resale value falls before debt is repaid, especially as newer chip generations arrive.

The announcement covers memorandums of understanding, not signed contracts. Each project needs a final agreement; no timeline or capital split has been disclosed, and $500 billion is a target for capital raised over time, not Nvidia revenue, a single fund or one customer.

Nvidia says investors will assess deals independently, weighing customer demand, hardware use, cash generation and secondhand value. Likely borrowers include AI labs, enterprises and cloud companies that rent computing.

The collateral question

Residual value is what the equipment is worth if a customer walks away; the financing also depends on customer cash flow. Huang says Nvidia may offer residual-value support for up to 25% of an opportunity case by case, but has not explained the terms or who takes the first loss; it is not a guarantee.

Rental income does not prove resale value. Huang cited a one-year H100 rental rate rising from about $1.70 an hour in October 2025 to $2.35 in March 2026, while Silicon Data’s tracking put the median price to rent an H100 from a big cloud near $9.34 an hour in the second half of 2024 and about $6.26 a year later.

Amazon shortened some servers and networking gear’s useful life from six years to five effective January 1, 2025, citing faster technology development in AI and machine learning. The company said the change added about $1.4 billion to 2025 depreciation and cut net income by roughly $1 billion, mostly at AWS; Amazon did not write down Nvidia chips, and its filing does not name them.

Investor Michael Burry estimated in November 2025 that big cloud firms were understating AI depreciation by about $176 billion from 2026 through 2028, an estimate rather than a reported loss. Nvidia says A100 chips from 2020 still draw multi-year commitments that can stretch useful life toward a decade; no first project has been named, leaving the eventual contracts as the financing test.

12. aug. 2026

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro teaser shows a notification light

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro teaser shows a notification light as the company turns its phone launch toward celebrities and broader audiences.

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro teaser shows a notification light, first reported by The Verge. The feature gives longtime Pixel fans a hardware detail to scrutinize even as Google’s celebrity-led event begins at 6PM ET, eight hours after its preorder countdown is scheduled to end, presumably after the phones have been revealed in full.

Google is widening the launch spectacle even as the hardware teaser speaks to longtime Pixel users. Last year’s Made by Google event for Pixel 10 aired an hour after the phones were revealed and featured Jimmy Fallon; the stream drew 8.4 million YouTube viewers, compared with 1.4 million for the launch the year before.

This year’s livestream replaces Fallon with Trevor Noah and adds Stephen Curry, Alex Cooper and Peggy Gou. The format is aimed beyond Pixel power users, most of whom already know much of what is coming.

The notification light sits in the Pixel 11 Pro’s camera island, where the flash normally is. The regular Pixel 11 may not have it, and its placement suggests the component could also serve as the flash and flashlight. Google has not said what it can do; leaks suggest it may light up when users talk to the chatbot or receive calls from certain contacts.

That would revive a distinctive part of Google’s phone history. Most Nexus phones included hardware notification LEDs, and the Pixel 2 briefly brought the feature back in 2017 before Google dropped it again. Those lights could show charging status, flash for notifications and use different colors; open-source Android skins and apps added controls for colors and blink rates.

Dedicated LEDs went out of fashion around the same time that always-on displays arrived. Nothing’s recent phones have instead made them more elaborate with complex light arrays and dot-matrix displays that can vary by app or contact. The new phones may also bring the usual chipset bumps, camera upgrades and design-language tweaks, but Google has not said what the Pixel 11 Pro’s light can do.