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Meta Taps PIMCO and Blue Owl for $29 Billion Louisiana AI Data Center Funding

Meta will use $26 billion in PIMCO-led debt alongside $3 billion in Blue Owl equity to advance its superintelligence data centers with Prometheus slated for 2026; Hyperion will follow.

Servers stacked in the  ECL data center on Monday, July 28, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif.  Hydrogen energy produced at the facility is used to power an Artificial Intelligence data center.  (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
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Overview

  • The debt portion is set to be issued as investment-grade bonds backed by the rural Louisiana data centers’ assets.
  • The company plans to divest about $2 billion of existing data center assets under a co-development strategy to share construction costs.
  • Meta considered bids from Morgan Stanley, Apollo Global Management and KKR before finalizing its financing partners.
  • Prometheus, its first multi-gigawatt AI facility, is slated to go live in 2026 and will be followed by Hyperion, which can scale up to 5 GW.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has said that Meta will invest hundreds of billions of dollars in AI infrastructure for its superintelligence unit.