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Dow Jones reported on October 26 that BofA, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone are assembling a $63 billion SPV to buy Broadcom XPU accelerators and networking gear and lease them long-term to Anthropic, with deliveries from 2027 — AI infrastructure finance is shifting from equity to supplier finance and off-balance-sheet leasing.
Deconstructing the deal: an SPV borrows to buy chips, repaid by lease payments
Per Dow Jones Newswires at 16:55 ET on October 26, 2026 (verified in full via Morningstar), a group of lenders — Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi and Morgan Stanley — is arranging $63 billion in financing to buy AI compute infrastructure from Broadcom and lease it to Anthropic. The structure sets up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to purchase Broadcom XPU AI accelerators and networking solutions, which Anthropic will lease long-term; the arrangement is part of Broadcom's existing strategic compute capacity agreements, with deliveries expected to begin in 2027.
The loop closes like this: the SPV borrows to acquire chips and networking gear, leases them to Anthropic, and Anthropic's long-term lease payments become the cash flow that services the SPV's debt. For Anthropic, heavy chip capex converts into rental expense; for Broadcom, revenue is booked once the equipment ships, while residual-value risk moves to the SPV's capital providers.
The layered roles of banks and Blackstone: senior debt, mezzanine commitment, residual guarantee
Per Dow Jones, the financing is risk-layered: BofA, Citi and Morgan Stanley arrange the senior (first-lien) debt; Blackstone provides a commitment for the second-tranche financing; and Broadcom separately provides the SPV with a residual-value guarantee equal in size to the senior tranche. Senior debt thus sits with commercial banks, the mezzanine with alternative asset manager Blackstone, and the seller, Broadcom, backstops the equipment's residual value.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in an official statement that AI compute demand continues to grow at a remarkable pace, that the deal proves capital exists to finance that growth, and that Broadcom is uniquely positioned. A seller-provided residual guarantee is the credit enhancement that makes the bank package acceptable — it pushes part of the risk of Anthropic default or technology obsolescence back onto Broadcom's balance sheet.
Why Broadcom: TPU foundry credentials and balance-sheet credit
The purchase is not Nvidia GPUs but Broadcom XPU accelerators and networking gear. Broadcom is Google TPU's key custom-silicon foundry and also dominates high-speed switching fabrics for AI clusters. Buying through Broadcom ties this SPV financing directly into the Google TPU ecosystem and Anthropic's compute roadmap.
Timing matters too: per Dow Jones citing The Wall Street Journal, the deal was disclosed hours after Anthropic publicly filed its IPO paperwork; The WSJ reported its IPO valuation could sit between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. On top of an equity window at that valuation, Anthropic is using off-balance-sheet leasing for chip procurement — a mixed financing strategy across equity and debt, on-balance-sheet and off.
From equity raises to off-balance-sheet leasing: financial innovation in the AI capex cycle
Market reaction underscored the model's weight: per the Associated Press as verified via BNN Bloomberg, Broadcom shares rose 4 percent on October 27, a major contributor to the S&P 500's gain, while AI cloud rental specialist CoreWeave surged 7.9 percent. Chip leasing plus an SPV, senior-mezzanine layering and a residual guarantee together amount to packaging AI compute as a tiered, underwritable fixed-income-like asset.
For the broader AI capex cycle, chip procurement is no longer funded only by tech-company cash and equity raises; it is underwritten off balance sheet by banks, alternative asset managers and suppliers. If the model holds, more model companies' compute expansions may be financed through similar supplier-finance and leasing arrangements.