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BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, increasingly active as a financier of AI infrastructure — from data center special-purpose vehicles to stakes in the compute buildout backing large AI models. This hub tracks its AI-related investments and the deals that tie Wall Street capital to the AI boom.
Nvidia signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build financing platforms that could mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
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Meta just handed BlackRock 80% of a $14 billion AI data center. Here's what a special-purpose vehicle is, and why it's become the go-to way to finance the AI buildout.
Read more →Meta and BlackRock formed a joint venture to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, shifting most of the roughly $14 billion project off Meta's balance sheet.
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