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$GS & $APO in talks w/ investors to start selling portions of a roughly $40B chip financing deal on behalf of $SPCX
The deal is structured to keep the debt off SpaceX's balance sheet & protect their corporate credit rating
In some cases, investors are being asked to purchase slices of as much as $500M before the official syndication process starts, in an effort to swiftly close the transaction
The deal uses a SPV managed by Apollo-backed Atlas SP that will buy $NVDA GPUs & issue the debt held by lenders - this is the largest arrangement of its kind for GPUs on record
The debt package, along w/ a lease prepayment of $7B, will be used to pay for about $47.3B of GPU equipment, namely Nvidia's latest Rubin chips - the chips will be delivered in 1H27
SpaceX will rent the chips through a 5-year agreement but is not providing a residual value guarantee or other commitments that have become common for tech firms to secure financing.
Additionally, SpaceX cannot use force majeure clauses to pause its payments — a contrast to $ORCL which it did recently
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