The AI hardware supply chain is shifting from venture equity to asset-backed private credit financing.
The unprecedented capital scale of custom silicon and infrastructure build-outs has driven frontier AI labs to finance compute clusters through structured, hardware-secured private debt rather than diluting equity.
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Computing infrastructure costs are shifting financing from equity to multi-billion-dollar debt packages backstopped by tech giants' corporate credit.
Anthropic avoids equity dilution by using a $35 billion private credit facility structured via a special-purpose vehicle to purchase custom silicon.
Anthropic secures a massive $35 billion private credit facility backed by Broadcom, shifting its capital funding from venture equity to hardware-secured private debt.