Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC)

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-financing-initiative-follows-sec-guidance-taking-sponsors-off-the-hook.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260817/i25.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260817/p25#a260817p25" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Tobias Burns / <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-financing-initiative-follows-sec-guidance-taking-sponsors-off-the-hook.html">Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence.</p>