{"id":455698,"date":"2026-02-03T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455698\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:42:07","slug":"blackstone-bankrolls-firmus-as-private-credit-meets-ai-factories-what-could-possibly-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455698\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone bankrolls Firmus as private credit meets AI factories. What could possibly go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private-equity giant Blackstone is set to breathe new life into Australia\u2019s data centre sector with the type of deal underpinning a $US3 trillion ($4.3 trillion) rush in the United States that is now spreading globally.<\/p>\n<p>After a summer of talks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/blackstone-moves-to-lock-down-firmus-billion-dollar-debt-package-20251130-p5njkd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackstone\u2019s getting ready to bankroll<\/a> Oliver Curtis\u2019 Australian artificial intelligence factory upstart, Firmus Technologies, which needs tens of billions of dollars to rent and build giant data centres that would service big US technology companies and their large language models.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Private-equity giant Blackstone is set to breathe new life into Australia\u2019s data centre sector with the type of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-455698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}