A short loan that carries a borrower until longer money is raised, and is repaid from it. SpaceX’s bridge was repaid from its bonds. Chapter 10.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 10 — The Lender’s Decision
Who is lending the money and who bears the loss: the bonds, leases and guarantees behind the largest campuses, and how the paper reaches ordinary retirement accounts.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Bridge loan.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/bridge-loan (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-bridge-loan-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Bridge loan}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/bridge-loan},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}