The AI data centre company wants $35 billion from public markets on a first half where direct costs exceeded revenue, a $1 billion net loss and a contracted-demand total of $103.4 billion. Underwriters have yet to set a range.
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The new money is $5 billion today and up to $20 billion tied to commercial milestones Amazon did not define, against a ten-year Anthropic commitment to spend more than $100 billion on AWS silicon.
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The Information now puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn on at least $40bn pre-money, with Nvidia writing roughly half the cheque, which makes this a compute-supply arrangement for anyone buying Tinker cluster time.
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The contract value is public and the size of Nscale's stake in Figure is not, which leaves anyone reading a $51bn backlog ahead of a US listing unable to tell how much of that line the seller helped pay for.
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The chipmaker is discounting with dilution rather than price: nearly 1.4 million shares vest in year one, the rest in tranches tied to every $500 million of chips Google orders.
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Nvidia confirmed it will underwrite the first 4.25GW at the Pike County site, after cutting its reported exposure from $250bn to $120bn. The scarce input here is credit, not GPUs.
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