Famed investor Michael Burry has targeted Nvidia Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) push to unlock over $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure financing, calling the initiative a "Wall Street stunt" that relies on opaque private credit arrangements.
Inside Nvidia’s Deal Structure Nvidia recently signed a memorandum of understanding with six major Wall Street asset managers—Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR—to create specialized compute financing platforms.
The initiative aims to help hyperscalers and enterprises finance data centers through institutional credit rather than balance sheets alone.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang framed the effort as the "first time that technology chips have become an investable asset class," functioning like productive "infrastructure".
However, Burry challenged the structure, pointing out that the deal "involves Nvidia taking 25% stakes & providing residual value guarantees on purchase of its chips." Describing the mechanism as being "All filtered through Private Equity’s Private Credit schemes," Burry warned social media followers, "I have an idea of how that will look.
