Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion
Summary
Meta plans to raise $95 billion through two stock offerings to fund its investment in AI infrastructure. The announcement came as investors weighed concerns about debt-heavy data-center providers, after Elon Musk warned that many smaller companies could face financial trouble.Key Facts
- Meta plans to raise $35 billion through an underwritten public stock offering.
- Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares as cornerstone investors.
- Meta also plans a $60 billion at-the-market offering of new Class C shares, which do not carry voting rights.
- Meta said the fundraising would support investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence.
- Musk said debt markets had largely stopped lending to companies without substantial revenue outside AI data centers and predicted consolidation among more than 200 neocloud firms.
- Shares in Nebius, CoreWeave and Iren fell more than 2% in premarket trading before rising after the market opened.
- CoreWeave has about $35 billion in borrowing, and its stock had lost more than a third of its value over the past month.
- SpaceX reported a $40 billion deal with Apollo Global Management to lease chips for AI data centers.
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