Part 10Who writes the checks
Torsten Slok of Apollo says adding technology analysts’ forecasts roughly doubles the sector’s operating cash flow to about $2.4 trillion by 2028, a gain of more than $1.2 trillion.
The Bubble Is in the DenominatorCompany · APO
Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management is named in 12 Parts of The Buildout, most recently Part 16: The Seller Holds the Paper.
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APO on NYSE
Financial Modeling Prep, as of Oct 21, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET. Delayed quotes.
- Price
- $111.69
- +0.47 (+0.42%) today
- Market cap
- $66.0B
- P/E (trailing)
- 24.2
- Next earnings
- Nov 3, 2026
- Exchange
- NYSE
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Part 16 · The loan is a bridgeAug 12, 2026
On circularity fears: recent third-party capital from Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR was independently underwritten apart from one another and replaces Nvidia's balance sheet rather than merely extending it, which…
Part 14 · The buyers have not paid yetSep 21, 2026also Part 11
Consensus expects hyperscalers' operating cash flow to more than triple by 2030, outpacing the sharp increase in AI-driven capex, based on FactSet and Apollo Chief Economist sources for Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.
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Part 10The bill raises the rate
Leyla Kunimoto, citing an Apollo presentation, reports that hyperscalers sold close to $250 billion of high-grade bonds in 2026, more than in the previous ten years combined.
The Bubble Is in the DenominatorPart 09The first bill
Apollo put the question plainly; the checkout supplies the cash.
Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.Part 08Who writes the checks
Torsten Slok, Apollo’s chief economist, turns the revenue question into an accounting test.
AI Lenders Are Financing the End of ScarcityPart 08Who writes the checks
Apollo’s analysis makes the mismatch difficult to wave away.
AI Lenders Are Financing the End of ScarcityPart 08Who writes the checks
Apollo’s credit analysis captures a debt price dependent on a large improvement.
AI Lenders Are Financing the End of ScarcityPart 07AI meets the rate
Apollo, relayed by DeepValue Capital, assumes hyperscaler operating cash flow triples from $600 billion to $2 trillion, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for more than half of a $2.3 trillion backlog.
The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.Part 06The megawatt premium
Michael Burry, citing Apollo’s Torsten Slok, says private non-residential construction excluding data centers fell 7.9% year over year in June.
Power Doesn’t Depreciate. Its Premium Moves.Part 04Arithmetic sets the test
Big Tech now spends more each year on AI than the United States spent on the Apollo program after inflation.
AI Spending Has Met Its First Real BillPart 01Lede
In late May, Apollo was raising $38 billion of debt to put Google’s TPUs, not Nvidia’s GPUs, behind Anthropic.
Nvidia’s Demand Is Real. Its Financing Is Fragile.Part 01Lede
Ten weeks later, Apollo and Blackstone were assembling a $35 billion first tranche of an “AI XPU platform”: twenty gigawatts of Broadcom-designed compute through 2028.
Nvidia’s Demand Is Real. Its Financing Is Fragile.Part 01Private credit, public appetite
Apollo and Blackstone can assemble capital for an AI XPU platform without asking any single balance sheet to carry the full future.
Nvidia’s Demand Is Real. Its Financing Is Fragile.
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