SpaceX reportedly seeks up to $40 billion to secure 1.21 million NVIDIA GPUs

What happened

AI Times reported this, citing Reuters and other outlets. SpaceX is seeking to raise up to $40 billion (about 53 trillion won) to acquire large volumes of NVIDIA's latest GPUs. It is in talks with major banks and asset managers about a $10 billion bank loan and a $30 billion investment-grade bond issue. Private equity firm Apollo Global Management is reportedly leading the financing, and large asset managers including PIMCO are said to be considering joining. The funds are expected to go toward expanding AI data centers, including in Memphis, Tennessee. According to the article's headline, the target is 1.21 million GPUs. The input materials contain no official announcement from SpaceX.

Why it matters

If completed, it would be the largest financing in AI infrastructure investment. It signals that debt financing such as bonds and private loans is growing sharply as a way to build frontier-scale training and inference capacity.

Sources

• Press 스페이스X, AI 칩 구매에 53조 조달 추진...GPU 121만개 확보 나선다 AI Times (Korea)