Nvidia Taps Debt Market With $25 Billion Bond Sale
The AI chipmaker returned to the investment-grade bond market after five years as Big Tech spending on AI infrastructure continues to surge.
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Nvidia has raised $25 billion through a US bond offering, marking its first return to the debt market since 2021 as technology companies seek fresh capital to support the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.
The offering drew about $85 billion in demand, Reuters reported, allowing Nvidia to increase the sale from an initially planned $20 billion. The issue was split across seven tranches, with maturities extending to 2056.
Nvidia said the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including repaying and refinancing existing debt.
The transaction comes as spending on AI infrastructure continues to surge across the technology sector. Cloud providers, AI developers and hardware manufacturers are investing heavily in data centers, networking equipment and computing capacity to support increasingly powerful AI systems.
Unlike major cloud companies that are raising capital to finance large-scale data center construction, Nvidia’s bond sale appears aimed largely at strengthening its financial flexibility and establishing a more active presence in credit markets.
Reuters reported that one reason behind the issuance was to create a more liquid benchmark for the company’s cost of borrowing.
Nvidia has not issued investment-grade bonds in five years. Its previous debt offering raised $5 billion in June 2021, before generative AI transformed the company’s growth trajectory.
The chipmaker has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, with demand for its graphics processing units surging after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. Nvidia reported revenue of $216 billion in fiscal 2026, compared with approximately $27 billion in fiscal 2022.
The company currently carries about $7.5 billion in long-term debt and roughly $1 billion in short-term borrowings.
Nvidia joins a growing list of technology companies tapping capital markets to support AI-related investment.
Alphabet recently disclosed plans for an $85 billion capital raise while continuing to access debt markets. Amazon has raised tens of billions of dollars through bond offerings across multiple markets this year, and Meta has explored a bond issuance that could become its largest on record.
