Apollo → xAI: $12.5B funds & debt
GPU debt for Colossus 2. Apollo and Diameter Capital arrange $12.5 billion of debt for a vehicle that buys Nvidia GPUs and leases them to xAI for 5 years (Colossus 2, Memphis). The debt is secured by the GPUs.
This deal is 22% of everything Apollo pays and 8% of everything xAI receives in this database.
- Date
- Oct 8, 2025
- Paid by
Apollo- Received by
xAI- Type
- Funds & debt
- Amount
- $12.5B
- Status
- reported
- Note
- SPV total debt (Apollo and Diameter arrangers)
Sources
All deals between Apollo and xAI
- Oct 8, 2025 Apollo → xAI · GPU debt for Colossus 2 $12.5B
- Jan 7, 2026 Apollo → xAI · Apollo finances GB200 GPUs for xAI $3.5B
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- Jan 28, 2026 Tesla invests $2 billion in xAI $2B
- Jan 6, 2026 xAI closes $20 billion Series E $20B
- Jan 6, 2026 Cisco strategic investor in xAI's Series E n/a
- Jan 6, 2026 Nvidia strategic investor in xAI's Series E n/a
- Nov 19, 2025 xAI and HUMAIN: 500 MW data center in Saudi Arabia n/a