{"id":108630,"date":"2025-10-28T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108630\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:32:11","slug":"blackstone-saudi-ai-firm-humain-ink-3-billion-data-center-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108630\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone, Saudi AI Firm Humain Ink $3 Billion Data Center Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Private equity giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BX:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Blackstone Inc.<\/a> is partnering with Saudi Arabia\u2019s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, to build data centers in the kingdom with an initial investment of about $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">AirTrunk, owned by Blackstone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/3682Z:CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Canada Pension Plan Investment Board<\/a>, will work alongside Humain to develop a long-term partnership focused on financing, developing, and operating data centers and AI infrastructure throughout Saudi Arabia, the firms said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. is partnering with Saudi Arabia\u2019s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, to build data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,21537,44941,15704,66353,61,4082,60,1673,1728,4450,383,80],"class_list":["post-108630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-blackstone-inc","tag-canada-pension-plan-investme","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-future-investment-initiative","tag-ie","tag-infrastructure","tag-ireland","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-private-equity","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}