Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are counting on large financial injections to finance future purchases of AI equipment. We’re talking tens of billions of dollars. reports Datacenter Dynamics.
Broadcom has been trying to raise $50 billion in recent weeks to support further development, according to The Wall Street Journal. custom AI chip with the participation of OpenAI. At the same time, it was recently reported that Broadcom itself lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for its own chips. Meanwhile, Oracle is rumored to be negotiating with investors Apollo and Goldman Sachs, and SpaceX wants to receive $40 billion to purchase NVIDIA equipment.
The deal involving Broadcom could provide several gigawatts of total OpenAI chip power and is scheduled to close before the end of this year. More detailed data about the Oracle project is not available, but it is known that the funds raised, as the company expects, will help cover the time gap between paying for equipment and receiving revenue. In the summer it was reported that the company’s shares fell due to plans for loans for data center construction.
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Separately, it was reported that SpaceX expects to attract bank loans and funds through investment-grade debt to purchase equipment for $10 billion and $30 billion, respectively. Apollo is expected to lead the deal and help place the debt. Completion of the transaction is scheduled for 2027.
Also recently, Elon Musk confirmed that the company had held talks with Taiwan’s TSMC regarding a TeraFab megafactory project in Grimes County in Texas. Musk said in early October that SpaceX would build and operate the facility, and TSMC might lease some of the factory’s capacity if it wanted, “but nothing beyond that.”
SpaceX intends to invest $16.8 billion in the construction of the factory. In August 2026, Musk stated that upon completion of construction, the factory will become the “largest and most valuable” building on Earth. According to him, when completed, the building will be 50 times larger than the Pentagon. Earlier this year, NVIDIA became TSMC’s largest customer, surpassing Apple.
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