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CoreWeave is looking to borrow against insurers’ large pools of capital to help finance its data-centre expansion, the Financial Times reports. The approach could give the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider another route to funding its build-out.

The supplied report summary does not give loan terms, amounts or a deal timetable, so this is a financing strategy to watch, not a completed transaction. For a business whose growth depends on building costly AI infrastructure, the source of the money matters almost as much as the appetite to spend it.

Discuss: Should AI infrastructure providers lean on insurers for expansion loans, or does that create too much financial exposure to one fast-growing industry?

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