A floor under an asset’s value, paid by the guarantor if the asset re-lets or sells for less. Meta gives one at Hyperion, and NVIDIA one at OpenAI’s Ohio campus. Chapter 10.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Defined in Chapter 10 — The Lender’s Decision.
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. “Residual-value guarantee.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/residual-value-guarantee (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-residual-value-guarantee-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Residual-value guarantee}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/residual-value-guarantee},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}