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Companies that build data centres, fill them with GPUs and rent compute to AI developers under long supply contracts.
Nscale's registration statement pairs $140.6 million of first-half revenue with a $1.02 billion net loss, and says the company holds no binding commitments for the financing its four Anthropic agreements oblige it to seek.
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Two compute landlords raised $4.5bn between them while cloud security, protein bars, payroll software and robot silicon split under $900m, and the second-biggest cheque came from a trading firm rather than a venture fund.
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CoreWeave has disclosed $5.1bn of equipment financing and Nebius says debt plus one customer contract covers more than 100% of a deployment's capex, which turns an enterprise compute order into a credit judgement.
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The two facilities release cash against project spend rather than revenue, which makes the 275 megawatts they finance a delivery schedule, and Nscale disclosed no pricing, maturities or covenants to price it against.
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The larger 2030 tranche carries a coupon of no more than 0.5 percent, and Nebius is also swapping older convertibles for shares. The build-out is priced in dilution, not cash flow.
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