DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North America, Blackstone
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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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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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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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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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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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-owned Link Logistics files to develop data center campus outside Atlanta, Georgia
Company targets five-buiding campus outside Union City
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Blue Owl opts not to fund Oracle's $10bn Michigan data center
Oracle maintains that negotiations are "on schedule" for project, Blackstone could pick up the bill
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Lancium secures $600m in debt financing – report
Company secures more funds for Abilene site hosting OpenAI
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Blackstone expands Aligned Data Centers' credit facility to more than $1bn
New financing to fuel further expansion
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Data center and energy firms plan $90bn investment in Pennsylvania
Keystone State's investment summit sees big plans for digital infrastructure revealed
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Hoax bomb threat made at QTS data center in Georgia
No credible threat discovered, police say
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Oracle, Blackstone, a16z back in the running to buy TikTok - report
Group tries again despite previous bid stalling
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Colovore secures $925m debt facility from Blackstone for liquid-cooled data center build-out
Company secures funds for build-out in Reno, Austin, and Chicago
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Rogers sells $4.9bn stake in wireless network to Blackstone
Blackstone will hold a 49.9 percent stake in Rogers' new network subsidiary
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QTS Data Centers founder and CEO Chad Williams steps down after 20 years
New co-CEOs appointed at Blackstone-owned business
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Blackstone to acquire gas fired power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia
Deal worth $1 billion