Enterprise DNA
Compute clouds and the money behind them

Financing the buildout

The loans, bonds and private credit that pay for chips and buildings before the revenue arrives.

How big
Private credit could be asked to fund $1T of AI compute (Carlyle estimate)
Growth
Top-rated data centre bonds went from under 5% to about 7% in 2026 (Morgan Stanley).
On the map
15 companies, 6 money flows, 3 openings

Who is making money

The companies earning or raising real money in this part of AI. Suppliers are marked: they sell to the builders rather than to end users.

Brookfield
BN

Infrastructure investor that owns power and data centre assets, and runs a $100B AI infrastructure program.

AI infrastructure program of up to $100B, with $10B equity target and $5B committed (launched with Nvidia and KIA)

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Blue Owl Capital
OWL

private credit fund

Took 80% of Meta's Hyperion data centre joint venture

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PIMCO

buy the bonds

BlackRock took $3B of the Hyperion bonds

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QTS Data Centers
Supplier

US data centre operator owned by Blackstone, and one of the largest in the country.

Blackstone bought QTS for about $10B in 2021

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Apollo Global Management
APO

Alternative 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)

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BlackRock
BLK

World'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)

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Blackstone
BX

Largest 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)

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MGX

Abu 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

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SoftBank Group
9984

Japanese 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)

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Valor Compute Infrastructure

Vehicle 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)

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Morgan Stanley
MS

arranges the debt

Arranged over $27B for Hyperion

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Stack Infrastructure
Supplier

Data centre developer, and Blue Owl's data centre arm, seeking a large loan to fund its builds.

Asia operations could sell for more than $30B (Bloomberg, May 2026, not finalised)

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Global Infrastructure Partners

BlackRock-owned infrastructure investor that is part of the group buying Aligned Data Centers with MGX.

Part of a group buying Aligned Data Centers, reported at about $40B

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JPMorgan Chase
JPM

US bank that lends to data centre builders, including construction loans alongside private funds.

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Kuwait Investment Authority

Sovereign wealth fund that co-backs Brookfield's AI infrastructure program.

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Where the money flows

Clouds sign long leases or compute contracts, then pension, insurance and private-credit money lends against them, often off the tenant's books.

The openings

Gaps still open in this area, from ones a small business could take to ones only giants can play.

  • Small business Due diligence and loan-monitoring software for lenders to data centres and GPU fleets
  • Startup money Pricing and insuring what a used GPU is worth
  • Giants only Infrastructure funds dedicated to AI campuses
The sceptic's view

Gartner says data centre owners need $8.5T of revenue by 2030 but AI will bring in about $3.6T, putting over $3.5T of spending at risk of write-downs.

Sources: bloomberg.com, investing.com, morganstanley.com, theregister.com

The map updates three times a week.

241 companies across 25 areas, 62 money flows and 89 openings so far. New research lands every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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