Amazon is hiking chip-rental prices and reportedly moving Nvidia processors off the balance sheet

MarketWatch Friday 02 October 2026, 09:07 UTC By Steve Goldstein 1 min read

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In a sign of the financing crunch facing the hyperscalers financing the AI revolution, Amazon has announced it is raising prices on how much it charges to rent high-performance microchips as it reportedly is going to sell and then lease back Nvidia chips.

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