Oracle issued a force majeure notice on Blue Owl's Jupiter campus, whose reported $18bn of bank loans already trade below 90 cents on the dollar. Lenders who priced Oracle's credit now also have to price who pays when the power arrives late.
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Oracle sent Project Jupiter's developer a force majeure notice that lets it delay payments if the New Mexico campus misses its 2028 target. The site's gas pipeline and air permit are both still pending, so capacity plans built on that date need a fallback.
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Oracle shares fell more than 6% on Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl over Project Jupiter, its New Mexico AI data center. The notice protects Oracle's cash if the site runs late and makes its 2028 date the one lenders and investors now watch.
Publishers:businessinsider.com · forbes.com.au · santafenewmexican.com Perspective Coverage
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Oracle invoked force majeure on Project Jupiter, a New Mexico AI campus for OpenAI now expected to run about a year late. The delay postpones the higher post-completion return on Blue Owl's roughly $3 billion of equity.
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About $1.2 trillion of data-center leases that have not begun and $1.9 trillion of chip and equipment purchase agreements sit in the footnotes of nine tech firms whose capex over the past year was around $600 billion.
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Redemption demand is now hitting the caps that semi-liquid funds always disclosed and few buyers priced. The gate, not the default rate, is the risk allocators underwrote.
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