Blackstone targets ready-made data centres with new investment platform

Cameron Page2026-04-13T15:41:00

Source: Freepik / kues1

Private equity group moves to launch IPO for new digital infra investment platform, seeking newly constructed data centres while avoiding prospective (and unproven) projects. Move comes as Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman seeks to build on one of the investor’s “best years yet” in infra…

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Organisations: Barclays; Blackstone; Blackstone Infrastructure Partners; Citigroup; Deutsche Bank Securities; Digital Realty; JLL; JPMorgan; Morgan Stanley; Phoenix Tower International (PTI); QTS Data Centres; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Sightline Climate.
Geographies: Africa; Americas; Asia-Pacific; Europe; Finland; Middle East; Netherlands; North America; Spain; United Kingdom (UK); United States of America (USA).
People: Jon Gray; Stephen Schwarzman.
Themes: Artificial intelligence (AI); Cloud workloads; Compute demand; Data centres; Digital infrastructure; Electric grid modernisation; Energy; Energy infrastructure; Hyperscalers; Initial public offering (IPO); Investment; Private equity; Real estate; Transport infrastructure; Wireless infra.

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