Nvidia in talks to back Nscale data centre debt
What happened
On 31 October 2026, TechCrunch, citing The Information and followed by Bloomberg, reported that Nvidia is in talks to provide billions of dollars in debt financing guarantees for AI cloud provider Nscale's data centre project in West Virginia. According to Nscale's IPO filing, Anthropic has signed a $44.6bn contract for the project's first building, which will have 460MW of capacity and is expected to use Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips; the two sides are also discussing a deal worth about $45bn for a second building. Nvidia's guarantee talks with Nscale are still ongoing and no final agreement has been announced.
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- TechCrunch · AINvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
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