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Sharon AI closes $356 million GPU-backed debt facility

By Grid & Silicon · Published October 3, 2026
Source: Sharon AI company announcement · October 1, 2026

What happened

Sharon AI says it has closed a $356 million senior secured debt facility designed to fund GPU deployments tied to customer contracts across Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

How the financing works

The October 1 company announcement describes a committed special-purpose-vehicle loan secured by GPUs and the cash flows associated with them. Sharon AI says the facility carries a fixed interest rate of 9.95%, before fees, and includes Goldman Sachs and large private-credit funds among the investors. Jarden Australia served as financial adviser and arranger.

That structure connects financing to identifiable computing assets and contracted customer payments. The GPUs and their revenue streams provide lenders with collateral, while Sharon AI receives capital for deployments without funding the entire purchase with new equity. It is a financing mechanism, not evidence that the planned machines are already installed or operating.

What the money is intended to support

Sharon AI says this is the first of an expected series of GPU financings supporting a schedule to deploy more than 68,000 Nvidia GPUs by mid-2027. The company also says it has secured more than $2.6 billion of institutional debt and equity over the past ten months and has customer offtake contracts with total contract value above $8.8 billion.

Those wider figures come from the company and describe capital raised, contract value and a deployment goal—not operating capacity. The announcement does not identify the GPU models, the number financed by this facility, the data centers receiving them, the power capacity required or a hall-by-hall delivery timetable.

What remains unknown

The release does not disclose the loan's maturity, amortization schedule, fees, loan-to-value ratio or covenant package. It also does not identify the customer contracts whose cash flows support the debt. Those terms determine how much financial risk remains if hardware values fall, deployment is delayed or customers use less capacity than expected.

The completed event is the financing transaction. The 68,000-GPU buildout and additional future financings are forward-looking company targets. Evidence to watch next includes equipment deliveries, commissioned power and cooling capacity, named customer acceptance and sustained utilization.

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