Pimco buys $4 billion of SpaceX AI debt package led by Apollo - Bloomberg

Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) recently acquired a $4 billion portion of a massive SpaceX financing deal aimed at bolstering the company's artificial intelligence capabilities. According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with the situation revealed that the investment was made possible through a roughly $40 billion equipment-financing agreement led by Apollo Global Management Inc. The agreement is intended to support SpaceX in procuring Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units and related equipment.

Pimco is acquiring a portion of the A2 tranche within the overall debt package, which is positioned between junior and senior slices. The debt will be issued as 144a bonds, or privately placed debt securities that can be traded among select institutional investors. Pimco has established itself as a significant purchaser of debt in the AI boom, although the asset manager has expressed concerns about the industry's overindulgence.

The firm had previously acted as an anchor investor in financing Oracle Corp.'s data center campus in Michigan and supported Meta's project in Louisiana. It is worth noting that debt markets have become increasingly wary of AI companies in recent weeks, as the industry's spending has outpaced its profitability thus far. The interest rate on the debt was not disclosed in the report.