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  • AM Intelligence is reportedly seeking up to $3 billion through a mix of bonds, bank loans and about $300 million in advance payments from future customers; talks are said to be at an early stage.
  • In August the company announced a binding order for 9,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs for its first AI factory in Hyderabad, part of more than $8 billion in capex for an initial 200 MW.
  • AM Intelligence declined to comment on the financing reports, and no lenders have been named.

AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infrastructure company created by the founders of renewable energy group Greenko, is looking to borrow up to $3 billion to pay for a large order of Nvidia chips, according to reports published on October 30. The company has not confirmed the plans.

What is reported

Citing people familiar with the matter, Business Standard reported that the financing could combine bonds, bank loans and roughly $300 million in advance payments from future customers, as summarised by the Indian site Urban Acres. The talks are described as early, and terms could change. No lenders or customers have been named. AM Intelligence declined to comment, and Nvidia did not respond, according to the same report. Bloomberg also reported the financing effort.

The order behind it

In August, AM Intelligence announced a firm order for Nvidia Vera Rubin systems, with delivery planned for the first quarter of 2027, Entrepreneur India reported at the time. The order covers 9,000 Rubin GPUs, installed as rack-scale Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, for the company's first AI factory in Hyderabad. That site is planned at 30 megawatts and is designed to run very large models, including those with a trillion parameters.

The company put capital expenditure at more than $8 billion for an initial 200 megawatts. That is the first tranche of a planned gigawatt of compute-as-a-service capacity across India, the United States, Finland and Malaysia. It also says it is developing 5 gigawatts of powered data-centre sites in India, the US and Europe.

Context and caveats

The move fits a wider pattern of AI infrastructure being financed with debt rather than equity alone. Urban Acres cites Bloomberg data showing more than $650 billion in AI-linked borrowing. For India, which has been trying to build domestic computing capacity, a cluster of this size would be significant, but the reported figures come from anonymous sources and the financing is not yet arranged. Delivery dates for the chips, and how much of the planned capacity outside India will be built, remain open questions.