DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Blackstone
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud named Crux AI, hires Meta's data center engineering head Alan Duong
Plans hiring spree ahead of 2GW/year ramp
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Google and Blackstone JV experiences delays in data center projects - report
Project Braid hits some snags but executives say it is making "strong progress"
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Charter CFO Jessica Fischer to join Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud
Set to start in October, will be replaced by Kevin Howard
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Nvidia invests in data center powered land company Lancium
Deal will see Nvidia customers gain access to "large-scale, power-ready capacity” for AI workloads
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Inference chip startup Etched raises $700m, doubles valuation to $21bn
Comes weeks after company announced $300m fundraise
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Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR for $500bn financing program
Chip company aims to 'secure capital at attractive rates' for Nvidia customers
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Aussie AI cloud company Firmus raises $2bn via equity sale
Investors include Blackstone, Coatue, Nvidia, and Jane Street
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Blackstone invests $5.34bn in Williams' behind-the-meter natural gas power projects for the data center sector
Projects have a combined capacity of 2.6GW
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Digital Realty acquires Blackstone's stake in three Virginia data centers for $3.5 billion
Takes ownership of 288MW of capacity, fully leased to three clients
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Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone launch 20GW XPU platform
Initial $35 billion to serve Anthropic, via Fluidstack
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QTS behind Van Wert, Ohio, “mega site” acquisition, announces $10 billion data center campus
Development could bring $200 million in tax revenue and create 1,500 construction jobs
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Blackstone and Google team up for $5bn TPU-based cloud platform
Will enable customers to access TPUs via a different platform from Google Cloud
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VoltaGrid raises $1bn from Blackstone and Halliburton to expand power system offering for data centers
Acquires manufacturing partner Propell
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APAC data center firm AirTrunk enters India, acquires Lumina CloudInfra
Blackstone-owned firm takes over Blackstone-owned firm
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Blackstone files for data center REIT IPO
New publicly-listed unit to focus on stabilized, newly-constructed data centers in Tier 1 markets
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Blackstone-owned QTS Data Centers looks to raise $4.6bn, starting with 10-year investment-grade green bond sale
QTS has already held investor calls for the funding
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Blackstone acquires minority stake in data center firm Rowan
Terms not shared
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Blackstone acquires 49 percent of data center firm Rowan - report
Follows rumors of a deal last month
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Related Digital closes in on $16bn financing for Oracle data center in Michigan - report
Likely for Oracle’s Stargate development in Saline Township, Michigan
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Blackstone close to acquiring data center firm Rowan – report
Data center firm valued at $10 billion, according to reports
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AirTrunk secures $1.24bn green loan for Tokyo data center campus expansion
The funds will be used to refinance and develop TOK1 in East Tokyo
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Blackstone to launch publicly traded AI data center acquisition company - report
Comes on the back of QTS Data Centers' growth
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US utility PPL sees data center pipeline swell by 23 percent to 25.2GW
10GW of which is expected to be signed under ESAs by the end of Q1
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QTS Data Centers seeks $2 billion CMBS refinancing for three US data center campuses
Loan will be used to refinance existing debt associated with campuses
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Blackstone-led group invests $600m in Indian AI cloud Neysa
Neysa also seeks to raise $600m in debt financing
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Blackstone-owned Link Logistics files to develop data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia
Company targets five-buiding campus outside Union City
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Blackstone-backed Lumina CloudInfra to invest $1.1bn in data center in India - report
Construction timeline unclear
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Firmus secures $10bn debt financing facility for Project Southgate AI factory roll out
Funding led by Blackstone and Coatue