Blackstone's AI empire: $200B data centers, $95B chip financing, bets on Anthropic and OpenAI
SuB8u · x · 2026-10-18
Bloomberg details Blackstone's all-in AI bet: a $200B data center portfolio built around QTS and AirTrunk; $95B raised so far for Anthropic chip deals with Apollo, Broadcom and big banks (plus a $500B pledge with Apollo, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to fund AI developers); repeat financing of CoreWeave including an $8.5B loan backed by Meta contracts; co-founding neocloud Crux AI with Google ($5B equity, $25B with debt); energy investments like Enverus and Port Arthur LNG; BXPE fund stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX; and San Francisco property leased to Anthropic. 'Computing capacity is becoming an asset class in its own right.'
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