Pentagon in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack
vitaliychiley · x · 2026-09-11
Per a WSJ scoop by Anissa Gardizy and Rudegeair, the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud-computing startup Fluidstack — a major move of government capital directly into AI compute infrastructure supply.
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