Blackstone

September 9, 2026

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Google's 25-Year Iowa Deal and 22-Year Fortum Contract Put Power Terms First

September 3, 2026

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Prosper Zoning Blocks White Rose's $580M on 1,600 Precinct Votes

August 26, 2026

Lancium locked a strategic partnership with Nvidia to put the chipmaker's AI factory stack and power-management systems across its Texas campuses, with Nvidia taking an undisclosed strategic stake in the Blackstone-backed developer.

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 11, 2026

Opposition groups from Missouri to New Mexico to Virginia are shifting from harm arguments to procedural suits over notice, zoning, and meeting rules, a track Data Center Watch tied to at least 75 projects stalled in the first three months of 2024; Blackstone's QTS and Compass abandoned a Prince William County, Virginia conversion after a state court faulted public notice.

July 13, 2026

Blackstone abandoned the QTS development that held local permits but lost community backing.

July 5, 2026

In Virginia, a Blackstone subsidiary walked from the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway over a zoning notice defect.

June 2, 2026

Blackstone-backed capital is rewarding that discipline.

May 29, 2026

Rowan closed $3B for its 300 MW Temple campus (Blackstone and Quinbrook-backed, 2027 in-service).

May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, Blackstone's QTS Fayetteville facility consumed nearly 30 million gallons without payment, exceeding agreed peak limits during Georgia drought conditions.

May 21, 2026

Blackstone committed $5 billion to bring 500 MW of Google TPU capacity online by 2027, a neocloud-tier deployment that'll need transmission, generation, and water locked before sites get named.

May 12, 2026

Blackstone and Halliburton announced a $1 billion investment in VoltaGrid for behind-the-meter generation May 11, NVIDIA committed $2.1 billion to IREN with the Sweetwater Texas 2 GW campus at the center, and Constellation locked another 380 MW with CyrusOne in Texas on top of Calpine's prior 400 MW.

April 30, 2026

Michigan's Court of Appeals is now hearing challenges to the DTE-Oracle power agreement that anchored Related Digital's $16 billion Ann Arbor financing from Blackstone and PIMCO.

March 26, 2026

In Wisconsin, MISO reversed a $350 million substation award from Blackstone-backed Viridon to incumbent American Transmission Company after a $15 billion data center campus created urgency, a decision that shifts cost allocation from multistate ratepayers to Wisconsin customers alone.