# Google Builds a $150 Billion Leasing Structure to Put Its TPUs Inside Anthropic

A special purpose vehicle buys the chips, Broadcom guarantees roughly $30 billion of the first $35 billion tranche, and private credit funds the rest, keeping most of the risk off Google's balance sheet.

- Published: 2026-08-05T05:48:38.661Z
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- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/google-moves-billions-in-anthropic-chip-risk-off-its-balance-sheet/), [Capacity](https://capacityglobal.com/news/how-googles-150bn-anthropic-chip-deal-reshapes-ai-finance/)

The commercial terms of Anthropic's compute supply were already public. What emerged on August 4 is the financing structure underneath them. According to reporting summarized by [Capacity](https://capacityglobal.com/news/how-googles-150bn-anthropic-chip-deal-reshapes-ai-finance/) and [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/google-moves-billions-in-anthropic-chip-risk-off-its-balance-sheet/), Google has assembled a financing program of more than $150 billion. It draws in Broadcom, Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley and a group of cryptocurrency miners, and its purpose is to deliver Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) to Anthropic.

The mechanism matters more than the total. A special purpose vehicle (SPV), a separate company created to hold assets and debt, buys the hardware and leases it to Anthropic. The first tranche covered roughly one gigawatt of capacity, described as on the order of one million chips, for about $35 billion. Broadcom provides residual value guarantees covering approximately $30 billion of that tranche, and those guarantees are what allow senior lenders to accept rates the structure can support. Miners contribute power and sites. Google guarantees data center lease payments and also holds equity in Anthropic.

The underlying commitment, [first reported](https://thetechportal.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-enters-200-billion-agreement-with-google-for-cloud-and-tpu-chips/) in May, is roughly $200 billion over five years for Google cloud services and next-generation TPUs, with major deployments from 2027. Blackstone is in early talks on a further package of at least $36 billion, [according to reports](https://www.briefs.co/news/blackstone-circling-36-billion-debt-package-to-back-anthropi/). Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has passed $30 billion. None of the guarantee terms have been confirmed in a filing by Google, Broadcom or Anthropic, and the figures come from press accounts rather than audited disclosure.

## What this means

Frontier compute is now financed the way aircraft and power plants are, through a leasing vehicle, a manufacturer guarantee and private credit tranches. That transfers the residual value risk of custom accelerators onto Broadcom and onto lenders such as Apollo and Blackstone, and it lowers the effective cost of TPU capacity compared with hardware bought outright. Nvidia is the party most exposed, because its advantage has rested on supply and software rather than financing terms, and a guaranteed lease that prices cheaper narrows that advantage for large buyers. If Anthropic's revenue keeps compounding, the structure looks conservative. If revenue growth stalls, the first losses fall on the guarantors and the credit funds holding the tranches rather than on Google's income statement.

## What to watch

- Whether Google, Broadcom or Anthropic confirm the guarantee and lease terms in a securities filing, which would move these numbers from press reporting to disclosed fact.
- Whether Nvidia or its customers respond with comparable vendor guarantees or leasing structures, a sign that chip competition has shifted to financing terms.
- Pricing on the next debt package tied to Anthropic's chip leases, since a wider spread would show credit investors demanding more to hold accelerator residual risk.