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Market Blackstone launches $1.75B data-center REIT IPO; infrastructure bet intensifies Market AI Bond Binge Overwhelms Wall Street, Pushing Alphabet Overseas Market Cerebras IPO Prices Above Range as AI Infrastructure Demand Surges Chips MRAM memory gets dedicated standards working group Breaking Microsoft feared overdependence on OpenAI, trial testimony reveals Market Fervo Energy Soars 35% After $1.89B Geothermal IPO Market Cisco Surges 14% on AI Orders Boom; Cuts 4,000 Jobs Market Cerebras IPO prices at $185/share; AI chip company heads to public markets Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Platform on AWS with enterprise AI services Market Anthropic eyeing $900B valuation in new funding round: Bloomberg Breaking Palo Alto Networks Warns AI-Driven Cyberattacks Will Become 'New Norm' Within Months Market Ford Surges on Morgan Stanley Hyperscaler Tie-Up Thesis Funding Anduril Raises $5B at Unicorn Valuation; Defense Tech Funding Accelerates Market CNBC highlights unheralded AI stock QNITY amid AI rally Market Stocks climb on chipmaker enthusiasm as inflation concerns fade Chips JSR expands EUV photoresist production to Taiwan near TSMC Breaking ElevenLabs Faces Lawsuit from Pulitzer, Emmy-Winning Journalists Over Voice Use Breaking Altman Testifies on Musk's OpenAI Departure: Nonprofit Left in Crisis Funding Fractile raises $220M from Accel, Founders Fund; AI infrastructure play hits unicorn status Funding Anduril doubles valuation to $60B as defense AI funding accelerates Market Blackstone launches $1.75B data-center REIT IPO; infrastructure bet intensifies Market AI Bond Binge Overwhelms Wall Street, Pushing Alphabet Overseas Market Cerebras IPO Prices Above Range as AI Infrastructure Demand Surges Chips MRAM memory gets dedicated standards working group Breaking Microsoft feared overdependence on OpenAI, trial testimony reveals Market Fervo Energy Soars 35% After $1.89B Geothermal IPO Market Cisco Surges 14% on AI Orders Boom; Cuts 4,000 Jobs Market Cerebras IPO prices at $185/share; AI chip company heads to public markets Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Platform on AWS with enterprise AI services Market Anthropic eyeing $900B valuation in new funding round: Bloomberg Breaking Palo Alto Networks Warns AI-Driven Cyberattacks Will Become 'New Norm' Within Months Market Ford Surges on Morgan Stanley Hyperscaler Tie-Up Thesis Funding Anduril Raises $5B at Unicorn Valuation; Defense Tech Funding Accelerates Market CNBC highlights unheralded AI stock QNITY amid AI rally Market Stocks climb on chipmaker enthusiasm as inflation concerns fade Chips JSR expands EUV photoresist production to Taiwan near TSMC Breaking ElevenLabs Faces Lawsuit from Pulitzer, Emmy-Winning Journalists Over Voice Use Breaking Altman Testifies on Musk's OpenAI Departure: Nonprofit Left in Crisis Funding Fractile raises $220M from Accel, Founders Fund; AI infrastructure play hits unicorn status Funding Anduril doubles valuation to $60B as defense AI funding accelerates

Market Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM

Blackstone launches $1.75B data-center REIT IPO; infrastructure bet intensifies

Blackstone raised $1.75 billion in a real-estate investment trust (REIT) IPO focused exclusively on data centers, underscoring mega-cap asset managers' conviction that AI compute and colocation will remain a structural growth driver. The offering reflects a shift in institutional capital from traditional real estate into digital-infrastructure assets.

For CIOs and infrastructure planners evaluating colocation partnerships, Blackstone's REIT entry signals liquidity and long-term capital availability for hyperscaler build-outs, even as supply-chain constraints persist in GPU and power delivery.

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