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Chips Agentic AI tackles RTL verification's productivity gap, EE Times reports Market Manufacturing steady in April as inflation and geopolitical tensions persist Chips NVIDIA's Asian supply chain now 90% of production costs Breaking DAIMON Robotics gives robot hands sense of touch via AI Breaking Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about settlement days before trial Market AI investment and infrastructure dominate Milken Institute Global Conference agenda Chips GUC and Wiwynn partner on silicon-to-system AI infrastructure for hyperscale Funding SAP acquires German AI startup Prior Labs for AI-powered data management Funding Amex GBT nears sale to General Catalyst–backed Long Lake fund Chips AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 leaked with 192GB unified memory, modest Strix Halo uplift Market Blackstone Data Center REIT seeks $1.75 billion IPO as AI infrastructure demand surges Funding Cerebras targets $3.5B IPO valuation, betting on AI chip demand Market Long-term SSD and HDD supply contracts surge to five-year terms as shortages persist Chips AMD debuts Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D with 3D V-Cache, pushes pro lineup to 16 cores Market Morgan Stanley: Big Tech capex discipline driving market outperformance in earnings season Chips Fraunhofer IPMS expands semiconductor research and manufacturing partnerships in India Market Bloomberg: AI remains market focus despite rising yields environment Market Denmark faces data center moratorium as power demand overwhelms grid Policy Europe diverges from Silicon Valley on AI regulation; startups navigate dual-regime compliance Funding VCs identify 11 future-of-compute startups to watch in 2026 Chips Agentic AI tackles RTL verification's productivity gap, EE Times reports Market Manufacturing steady in April as inflation and geopolitical tensions persist Chips NVIDIA's Asian supply chain now 90% of production costs Breaking DAIMON Robotics gives robot hands sense of touch via AI Breaking Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about settlement days before trial Market AI investment and infrastructure dominate Milken Institute Global Conference agenda Chips GUC and Wiwynn partner on silicon-to-system AI infrastructure for hyperscale Funding SAP acquires German AI startup Prior Labs for AI-powered data management Funding Amex GBT nears sale to General Catalyst–backed Long Lake fund Chips AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 leaked with 192GB unified memory, modest Strix Halo uplift Market Blackstone Data Center REIT seeks $1.75 billion IPO as AI infrastructure demand surges Funding Cerebras targets $3.5B IPO valuation, betting on AI chip demand Market Long-term SSD and HDD supply contracts surge to five-year terms as shortages persist Chips AMD debuts Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D with 3D V-Cache, pushes pro lineup to 16 cores Market Morgan Stanley: Big Tech capex discipline driving market outperformance in earnings season Chips Fraunhofer IPMS expands semiconductor research and manufacturing partnerships in India Market Bloomberg: AI remains market focus despite rising yields environment Market Denmark faces data center moratorium as power demand overwhelms grid Policy Europe diverges from Silicon Valley on AI regulation; startups navigate dual-regime compliance Funding VCs identify 11 future-of-compute startups to watch in 2026

Market Monday, May 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM

Blackstone Data Center REIT seeks $1.75 billion IPO as AI infrastructure demand surges

Blackstone's data center REIT is targeting a $1.75 billion IPO, reflecting explosive demand for AI-ready infrastructure and the concentration of capital into bulk real estate for hyperscale deployments.

The move underscores investor appetite for physical assets backing the AI compute boom and availability-constrained power and cooling.

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