$MSFT is reportedly winding down older $NVDA capacity rented from $ORCL as it reviews billions in cloud deals but this looks more like a shift toward newer GPUs than a retreat from AI spending.
After all Microsoft just asked $IREN to upgrade its GB300 network for frontier models while IREN re-contracted older H100s at double their original price suggesting AI demand is shifting across GPU generations.
41% of America's planned data center capacity is in states where the governor backs a pause on development, according to Cleanview.
That's 158.6 GW across nine states, led by:
Texas: 88.4 GW
Ohio: 21.9 GW
Georgia: 20.2 GW
New Mexico: 11.0 GW
New York: 9.9 GW
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coreweave has two term loans financing nvidia hardware for the same parent, and one pays 325 basis points more than the other.
-- loan 4.0, $8.5bn, pays SOFR plus 2.25% and is rated A3, because meta's contract backs it.
-- loan 5.5, $2.6bn, pays SOFR plus 5.50%, is rated Ba2 and BB+, and lends for five years against customer contracts of about three.
-- the unsecured 2031 notes, with nothing specific behind them, yielded about 16% at a new low of 79.5 cents on 4 november.
the two loan vehicles differ in structure too, so the customer isn't the whole gap, but i think it's most of it. coreweave's own release says loan 5.5 outlasts its contracts and gives it the option to renew or re-lease the capacity, which is a bet on future rent more than on what the chips would sell for.
the loan documents point the same way. on CCIR's ledger of GPU credit as of 31 october, seven facilities test collateral against cost written down over about six years, five cap the loan at a share of cost when each draw funds, four size it on contracted cash flow, and none runs an ongoing market-value test.
coreweave signed $33.8bn of financing in 2026 alone, and principal outstanding was $35.6bn at 30 june, with $10.6bn of it due by the end of 2027. my sense is the market has split coreweave into two credits: the contract cash, senior and cheap, and the GPU's later years, junior and priced like distress.