{"id":288227,"date":"2026-02-09T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:42:07","slug":"oliver-curtis-firmus-secures-us10b-from-blackstone-to-build-ai-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288227\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Curtis\u2019 Firmus secures $US10b from Blackstone to build AI factories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firmus, the artificial intelligence data centre provider co-founded by Oliver Curtis, has secured a huge $US10 billion ($14.2 billion) debt facility led by private equity giant Blackstone to fund its ambitious plans to build so-called AI factories across Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is one of Australia\u2019s largest private debt financings, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nz41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first flagged by <\/a>The Australian Financial Review. It was also supported by leading global investment firm Coatue.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firmus, the artificial intelligence data centre provider co-founded by Oliver Curtis, has secured a huge $US10 billion ($14.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-288227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288227","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=288227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}