Investors question data center loan valuations after latest Nvidia financing move

Cnbc · Aug 12, 2026 · 476 words · By Tobias Burns

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The biggest names in finance gave their blessing to the AI computing buildout this week, partnering with chipmaker Nvidia to promote the company's computing capacity as an " investable asset class ." Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, one of Nvidia's financing…

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While auto loans and residential mortgages are long-established assets for the pools of debt known as asset-backed securities (ABS), instruments based on computing capacity are a lot trickier to underwrite, investors say.

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Little experience "The question is how to underwrite and value data center-backed loans.

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Claim 1: “Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, one of Nvidia's financing partners, compared Nvidia's computing power assets to the 'mortgage-backed securities market in the 1970s.'”

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One web search result explicitly mentions Larry Fink comparing the situation to mortgage-backed securities, but there are no other independent sources provided in the evidence to corroborate this specific quote or comparison.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is by far the world…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who…
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Claim 2: “Nvidia shares dropped 3% Monday following the announcement, were little changed on Tuesday, and up about 2.7% in midday trading Monday.”

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The provided evidence contains general stock price tracking links and a news story about Snowflake, but no specific data regarding Nvidia's percentage changes on the mentioned Monday and Tuesday.

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web search NEUTRAL — Track the NVDA stock price with the live chart. Read Nvidia news and explore price history, market cap, price targets, trading ideas, and forecasts.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-NVDA/

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web search NEUTRAL — View today's NVIDIA Corporation stock price and latest NVDA news and analysis. Create real-time notifications to follow any changes in the live stock price.
https://www.investing.com/equities/nvidia-corp

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web search NEUTRAL — Shares of Buffet-endorsed Snowflake double in largest-ever software IPO.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/snowflake-snow-opening-tradi…

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Claim 3: “Wells Fargo traders said in a Tuesday note that Nvidia's agreements with financial titans like KKR , Blackstone and Apollo amount to a form of insurance for investors”

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A single web search result explicitly confirms that Wells Fargo traders mentioned in a Tuesday note that Nvidia's agreements with KKR, Blackstone, and Apollo amount to a form of insurance for investors. No other independent sources corroborate this specific claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American investment firm that serves institutional investors, wealth investors, family offices, and companies across a variety of ind…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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Claim 4: “"We know that these GPUs depreciate on only a five- or six-year schedule," Paul Meeks, head of technology research at Freedom Capital Markets, said.”

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While Paul Meeks is identified as the head of technology research at Freedom Capital Markets in multiple search results, the specific quote regarding the 'five- or six-year schedule' for GPU depreciation is not explicitly present in the provided evidence snippets, although a separate debate about a '6-year GPU depreciation schedule' is mentioned.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The labor theory of value (LTV) posits that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the socially necessary labor time required to produce it under prevailing conditions. The theory is…
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Claim 5: “Famed investor Michael Burry said on Tuesday that the Nvidia credit agreements had "shades of Enron ."”

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Three independent web search results confirm that Michael Burry stated Nvidia's credit agreements had 'shades of Enron's effort to make wholesale power an investable class'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Mr Burry said Nvidia's latest deals had "shades of Enron's effort to make wholesale power an investable class". "Structuring credit is a natural part of the system," he added.
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-ai-p…

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web search NEUTRAL — Michael Burry added to several of his biggest short positions, including Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, while increasing his long-term bet on Molina Healthcare.Burry also said the situation had “shades …
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web search NEUTRAL — Indeed, according to Burry, the supposed deal with a long list of major financial institutions is meant to distract from the rising costs of insuring Nvidia’s debt, while also noting it was akin to ‘E…
https://finbold.com/did-michael-burry-just-predict-the-colla…

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