Nebius bets $40B on AI infrastructure, funded by prepayments and loans
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-11-13
AI cloud provider Nebius is executing the "neocloud" playbook with $40 billion in planned infrastructure spending, funded largely through customer prepayments and loans. Delays at a Microsoft data center are now raising questions about whether this aggressive financing model holds up.
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