Blue Owl Capital
Private credit and investment firm that funds data centres and their leases, with a large Meta joint venture.
- Revenue
- Took 80% of Meta's Hyperion data centre joint venture
- Growth
- Took 80% of Meta's Hyperion data centre joint venture, paying Meta about $7B in cash (sources differ)
- Based in
- New York, US
- Founded
- 2019
- Listed
- Public (OWL)
It puts private money into AI sites that banks and bond markets fund only partly.
Its data centre lending depends on a small set of very large tenants.
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Who Blue Owl Capital pays to do what it does.
takes 80% of Meta's Hyperion data centre joint venture and pays Meta for the stake
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Competitors and neighbours
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Open profileLarge bond investor, owned by Allianz, that buys the debt behind AI data centres.
BlackRock took $3B of the Hyperion bonds
Open profileUS data centre operator owned by Blackstone, and one of the largest in the country.
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Open profileAlternative asset manager that lends against GPU fleets and data centres, often through leases.
Committed $3.5B toward a $5.4B deal for Nvidia chips leased to xAI (reported)
Open profileWorld's largest asset manager, which buys AI infrastructure debt and owns GIP, a buyer of data centres.
Bought $3B of the Hyperion bonds (US press reports)
Open profileLargest alternative asset manager, with a large data centre platform through QTS and others.
Data centre platform about $185B including projects under construction (Q2 2026, internal valuation)
Open profileAbu Dhabi AI investment fund, backing Stargate and AI data centres in the US, UAE and Europe.
Reported to have closed nearly $50B from investors in July 2026, targeting $100B
Open profileJapanese investor with a large OpenAI stake and a role in the Stargate project.
Completed a $41B investment in OpenAI for about an 11% stake (Dec 2025)
Open profileVehicle that buys Nvidia GB200 chips and leases them to an xAI subsidiary, financed by Apollo.
Apollo committed $3.5B toward a $5.4B deal (reported)
Open profileSources: tipranks.com
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