Nvidia and a group of major financial firms, including BlackRock, Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, recently signed memorandums of understanding to mobilize over US$500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, reframing data centers and compute hardware as long-life assets financed through dedicated platforms rather than Nvidia’s balance sheet. This positions BlackRock not only as an asset manager but also as a central architect of an emerging AI...