Amazon Plans to Spin Off $8 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips
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Amazon wants to spin off about $8 billion of Nvidia chips into a separate vehicle. It’s a new way to fund AI buildouts without stuffing more cost onto Amazon’s books.
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Amazon is working on a plan to move roughly $8 billion worth of advanced Nvidia chips into a separate investment vehicle, according to the Financial Times. The report says the company has been sounding out investors in recent weeks to see whether they want in.
The chips in question are thousands of Nvidia Grace Blackwell units already deployed in Amazon data centers across the US. Under the proposed setup, Amazon would place them in a special purpose vehicle, then lease them back from that entity. The SPV would raise money through debt, with outside investors helping fund the structure.
This is a balance-sheet move as much as a financing one. Amazon is trying to push expensive chip costs off its own books and lean into an asset-light approach. It is also said to be offering as much as a 10 percent equity stake in the vehicle, which suggests the company itself will not keep a share of the SPV.
The timing fits a wider shift among US hyperscalers, who are looking for ways to finance huge data center buildouts without loading up their balance sheets. And the pressure point is obvious: advanced chips are a major slice of data center spending, especially when they’re being used to train AI models.
Amazon has already said it plans more than $200 billion in capital expenditures this year. Much of that is expected to go into its cloud unit, where it will buy more chips and build more data centers. The message is blunt: AI infrastructure is so expensive that even giants are reaching for financial engineering, not just more hardware.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is what happens when the AI boom runs into accounting reality. The industry loves to talk about compute, but the bill still has to land somewhere, and SPVs are a tidy way to make that someone else. It’s less “future of intelligence” than old-school balance-sheet gymnastics with better branding.
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