Nasdaq-listed chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA), the bellwether of AI, is urging Wall Street banks to regard its AI computing power as an investable infrastructure asset, akin to commercial real estate, toll roads, or power plants.
On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has entered into memoranda of understanding with six major Wall Street firms — Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR — to create financing platforms that could eventually access over $500 billion from third‑party capital.
The company’s aim is to treat AI compute as a bankable infrastructure asset rather than a pure technology expense, prompting customers to expand AI data centers and secure demand for Nvidia’s hardware.
“This marks the first occasion when technology chips have been treated as an investable asset class — revenue‑generating, productive, long‑lasting, fungible, and flexible,” Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, stated.
Fundamentally, the computing landscape differs because the computer now forms part of the infrastructure — just as electricity or the internet — so it must be viewed as infrastructure,” he added.
What’s AI compute
AI compute denotes the raw processing power required to train and execute artificial intelligence models. Primarily realized through specialized chips — especially Nvidia’s high‑end GPUs — these resources populate the large data centers that Nvidia refers to as “AI factories.”
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