BlackRock

August 28, 2026

Bottom line: operators who treat water offsets, transparency, and written benefit-sharing as pre-filing work keep local allies; operators who don't watch those allies lose primaries and leave projects exposed to the next county calendar. NABTU partnerships with OpenAI, BlackRock, and Meta; IBEW lobbying against bans; Stargate's 700 trades already on site.

August 14, 2026

Nvidia's $500B financing platform with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR shortens GPU financial close and does nothing to queues, turbines, or transformers.

August 3, 2026

Meta and BlackRock have structured a $14B, 1 GW AI campus in El Paso as a debt-financed lease play: BlackRock-managed funds hold 80% and finance $12.5B through debt, Meta keeps 20% and leases compute back rather than owning it.

July 31, 2026

Meta and BlackRock closed their $14 billion, 1 GW El Paso campus without the transmission or water bottlenecks slowing open-market projects.

July 30, 2026

Meta and BlackRock announced a $14B partnership for a 1 GW AI campus in El Paso, with Meta contributing land and $2.3B of construction in progress for a 20% stake and sole initial occupancy while BlackRock-managed funds hold 80%.

March 5, 2026

The $10.7 billion take-private of AES Corporation by a BlackRock-backed Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT consortium is the day's most consequential story for datacenter infrastructure.