(Bloomberg) -- Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., wrapped up a $926 million leveraged-loan deal as that market becomes a new front in the borrowing binge to finance the artificial intelligence buildout.
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The company, part of a group dubbed neoclouds that rent access to microchips and other AI infrastructure, tapped investors to finance the purchase and installation of graphic processing units and other infrastructure as part of a contract with Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The loan priced three percentage points over the benchmark rate and is being issued at a slightly discounted 99.5 cents on the dollar, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing a private matter. The deal, which launched on Monday, saw price talk tightened earlier Wednesday.
The transaction follows a novel financing by CoreWeave Inc. earlier this year, which was the first of its kind to finance chips in the institutional leveraged-loan market. The company has been a pioneer in the loan market, selling debt backed by customer contracts for microchips from firms including OpenAI in May.
Lambda's loan has a relatively short maturity of 4.4 years, which is atypical for institutional loans that usually have a seven-year life. The deal is fully amortizing so that the debt will be repaid over a period of roughly four years, matching the loan's maturity.
Amortization is a type of protection that investors have been seeking, and in this case means lenders avoid any refinancing risk. The loan also has other investor-friendly features that would require the borrower to pay a penalty if it opts to redeem the debt early, the person said. That type of structure is more like a bond deal.
Wall Street banks and technology firms are scouring every corner of the capital markets to finance AI expansion, raising nearly $600 billion of debt globally since last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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