Nebius
AI cloud infrastructure company headquartered in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam-headquartered AI cloud infrastructure company whose debt-to-equity ratio stood at roughly 131 times as of 26 July 2026.
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Nebius is an AI cloud infrastructure company headquartered in Amsterdam, providing computing capacity to businesses building and running AI models and applications.
It operates within the broader 'neocloud' category of AI-focused infrastructure providers that have expanded quickly by financing data-centre construction largely through debt, a strategy that accelerates growth but concentrates financial risk.
Nebius's European headquarters distinguishes it from several US-based peers in the same lending analysis, though the underlying leverage dynamics facing the sector apply to it as much as to them.
Nebius leans heavily on debt financing
Nebius's debt-to-equity ratio stood at roughly 131 as of 26 July 2026, flagged by Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh among smaller AI infrastructure lenders showing capital-raise risk as credit spreads widen .
Headquartered in Amsterdam and built around AI cloud infrastructure, Nebius sits within the same debt-financed 'neocloud' category as several higher-leverage peers, though its ratio is markedly lower than the highest cited in Rakesh's analysis. For Nebius, the figure still sits FAR above established hyperscale providers, leaving it exposed to the same tightening-credit dynamics even at a comparatively lower point on the sector's leverage spectrum.