JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs repriced Volta's $5 billion AI infrastructure loan at yields between 11.21% and 11.75%, marking a 70-to-120 basis point increase from the initial guidance circulated in late April. The facility is secured by a fleet of datacenter GPUs and an offtake contract with Anthropic. The banks widened the spread after resistance from insurance companies and pension allocators who found the initial 10.5% range insufficient for the credit risk embedded in a three-year facility tied to compute leasing revenue.
Volta operates mid-tier colocation capacity in Northern Virginia and Oregon, leasing GPU clusters to AI model trainers under fixed-term contracts. The Anthropic agreement accounts for approximately 62% of projected near-term revenue, with the remainder split between two smaller foundation model developers and a handful of research labs. The debt structure includes a 1.25x debt service coverage ratio tested quarterly and a 70% loan-to-appraised-value covenant based on twice-annual equipment appraisals. JPMorgan and Goldman are placing the tranches into broadly syndicated loan funds, direct lenders, and a smaller allocation to balance sheet lenders at regional banks.
The yield adjustment reflects allocator concern that GPU residual values have begun decoupling from the straight-line depreciation schedules embedded in the loan covenants. Nvidia H100 clusters purchased in early 2023 at roughly $32,000 per unit now trade on secondary leasing platforms at $24,000 to $26,000, a 19%-25% decline in eighteen months. If that depreciation curve holds, Volta's collateral base would breach the 70% LTV threshold by mid-2026 absent additional equity cushion or contract renewals at higher rates. The Anthropic contract expires in March 2027, six months before the loan's final maturity, leaving a refinancing window compressed by hardware obsolescence risk.
This repricing arrives as the broader AI infrastructure debt market shows signs of selectivity fatigue. Two similar GPU-backed facilities launched in March and April remain unsyndicated, and three datacenter construction loans have seen their initial allocations cut by 30%-40% after roadshow pushback. Allocators are now requiring either cash-pay step-ups, equipment replacement reserves, or equity co-investment from the sponsors. Volta's sponsors—a consortium including Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and a sovereign wealth co-investor—declined to inject additional equity at this stage, opting instead to accept the higher borrowing cost and preserve their 22% unlevered return target.
Allocators should monitor the June 15 syndication close for any further flex or undersubscription. If the facility does not clear at these yields, expect JPMorgan and Goldman to either shrink the deal size or introduce a payment-in-kind toggle on the back half of the term. Operators with exposure to AI infrastructure debt should stress-test their LTV covenants using a 35% depreciation assumption over thirty-six months rather than the 20% schedules most models currently embed. The market will also watch whether Anthropic renews or renegotiates its compute contract ahead of the March 2027 expiration, as any pricing concession would cascade directly into Volta's coverage ratios.
The banks expect to price the final allocation by June 20.
The takeaway
GPU collateral depreciation and customer concentration pushed two bulge brackets to add 70-120 bps on AI infrastructure debt.
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