Residual values hold
Compute depreciates faster
How Nvidia's financing platforms turn AI compute into an asset-backed debt market
Capital flows from Nvidia MOUs into financing platforms, is held in private-credit funds, and placed into public debt; a capped backstop gate sends residual-value losses to insurers and private-credit funds, stalling the cycle.
Nvidia MOUs
six asset managers
Financing platforms
Goldman · Apollo · BlackRock
Blackstone · Brookfield · KKR
Private-credit funds
debt held here first
Public debt
funding costs fall
Asset class scales
Insurers
Banks
Money managers
Private credit
Nvidia backstop
capped share
First-loss layer
insurers + private credit
AI capex funding
cycle stalls
residual-value risk
losses flow to consortium
cap
structured by Goldman IB
placement
credit risk sits with the consortium