In an attempt to facilitate the buildout of AI infrastructure over time, Nvidia and six financial partners said they are creating a fund of more than $500 billion of third-party capital. The impact of such a cash infusion on enterprise AI is uncertain, but analysts fear that it could both further increase enterprise AI infrastructure costs and exacerbate the shortage of AI chips for data centers. The announcement from Nvidia and financial partners Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR said that their memorandums of understanding describe a fund “to establish the first compute financing platforms of their kind at global scale to enable the AI infrastructure buildout across Nvidia’s ecosystem, including leading frontier AI labs, enterprises and AI clouds.”