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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.

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.