xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round

XAI needs a way to finance all of the GPUs that are going to go into Colossus 2, its next big data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Here's how we've reported that they're going to do it. They've set up with investors a special purpose vehicle or SPV, basically a financing shell that buys Nvidia processors and then rents them back to XAI.Our understanding is the round's now up to around $20 billion split between $12.5% billion of debt and $7.5% billion in equity. Nvidia is putting around $2 billion into the equ ...