Nvidia and AMD fight over credit guarantees to bankroll customers' data centers
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-09
Per The Information, Nvidia and AMD are increasingly competing on balance sheets, at times bidding against each other to provide credit guarantees for the same data center customer. A site can have land, power, GPUs and a tenant yet fail to get financed if lenders doubt the tenant can cover a 15-year lease; the chipmakers are now stepping into that gap, effectively lending their own balance sheets to customers.
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