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Eh somewhat. I think they were careful enough to just have the loans not actually be in their name if you follow it as deeply as Ed Zitron has. But Nvidia is screwed from a different angle as they've set up expectations of selling more GPUs to data center builders each quarter in order to justify their share price.
That's still much better than holding the actual bag though.
If they can refinance their own customers to buy their own products without getting caught in the middle that would be even more scandalous than the circular financing itself but then, the financial system has been completely broken for a good while.
They're basically operating as a kinda/sorta backstop on the loans by saying they'll rent them back if everything falls through and be a guaranteed customer...but I think they did so in snaky legalese that lets them ultimately get away without actually renting them. I think it's through like subsidiaries and shit. Oracle is one of the actual bag holders and I think there are several others. They set up shell companies for each specific data center project and shit. It's quite the fucking racket and should pretty obviously be illegal from multiple angles.