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Firmus Technologies is seeking $7bn in an ASX float this month after its $2.1bn Launceston datacentre won fast-tracked approval without a public hearing. Most of the capacity behind its valuation is still to be built, at sites where residents are now pushing back.
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Broadcom backs the roughly $30 billion senior slice of Apollo and Blackstone's TPU lease financing for Anthropic, Crypto Briefing reports. If that holds, a chip designer is carrying an AI lab's credit risk and the resale value of TPUs it helped design.
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Waldencast sold Obagi for up to $460 million, against the $858 million it put on the brand in its 2021 SPAC deal. The $1.2 billion beauty platform a former L'Oreal executive assembled is now a single makeup brand with falling sales.
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JERA will feed a 400-megawatt AI data center costing more than $15 billion directly from its Chiba gas plant, with Apollo lined up to finance it. A 15-to-25-year supply contract gives JERA a long-dated buyer while the developer and its backer carry the construction bill.
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QTS, NextEra and Siemens Energy formed a Texas coalition to win local consent for data centres after nearly $200 billion of US projects were blocked in six months. For their investors, a county commission's vote now sits beside financing and equipment as something a project timeline depends on.
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Nvidia's $500 billion plan to finance AI buildouts against its own GPUs had closed no deals by early October. The first transactions will show whether lenders are pricing the chips or the customers renting them.
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Bain Capital's Drew Chen said the firm's roughly $5 billion China data-centre sale was likely China's largest private equity exit in five years. At the same Singapore summit, Brookfield and Blackstone described the AI tools they now put inside industrial and financial portfolio companies to grow earnings.
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MOUs with six large asset managers aim to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI factories. Nothing is funded yet, but the underwriting model already changes who sets compute prices.
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The MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR let borrowers pledge GPUs. What keeps those GPUs pledgeable is CUDA support, and no term has been stated.
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Memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR carry no terms or timetable, and NVIDIA has reserved an option to backstop up to $125 billion of the deals.
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Bloomberg reports senior and junior notes of up to $100 billion to fund Anthropic and others. The supplier would now carry financing risk on the buildouts that book its revenue.
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The firm says intruders reached its cloud platforms in July and took names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Google attributes the campaign to BlackFile, a Com affiliate with four extortion brands.
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Huskeys closed $27m five months after leaving stealth, with Blackstone leading what Globes calls the firm's first early-stage cybersecurity round. The cheque is worth about 0.002% of its assets.
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Two companies selling AI agents to enterprise engineering teams took in at least $2.2 billion of new equity within seven days, each selling about 4 percent of itself, and only one of the two prices has a revenue multiple attached.
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Blackstone's perpetual equity fund has gathered about $25 billion since January 2024, and holders can redeem up to 3% of net asset value a quarter. Its real estate fund ran past that limit for several quarters in 2022 and 2023.
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Shinyoung Asset's case for buying Seoul-area logistics centers instead of building them rests on a price gap it puts at 20% to 30%. Its own published ranges show that gap closing at the top of the market.
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Reuters reports Blackstone is exploring a sale of ZO Skin Health at around $2 billion. The dermatologist-channel brand's strongest disclosed figure is the share of patients who bought it twice in 2025.
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An American Banker opinion piece argues that GPU-backed loans audit serial numbers and liens while the compute that repays them goes unmetered, and it points at power finance, where lenders advance against settled megawatt hours.
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The reported collateral is Google's proprietary processors plus contracts with customers Crux has not named. A lender's recovery case therefore rests on someone else wanting TPU capacity outside Google Cloud.
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Factory raised $200 million to run language ports and migrations with orchestrated agents. Its projects open with a Readiness Report that checks whether the customer's repository is organized and documented well enough for those agents to work in.
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