@dawnmlim

@Bloomberg reporter. Exploring how private equity shapes infrastructure and the world. [email protected]

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AI upstarts enlist Big Tech and chipmakers for big financial backstops to get by. Many worry the backstops are propping up weaker players. But it's the only way for neoclouds to keep growing. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AI Upstarts Pressured to Get Big-Tech Backstops for Data Centers

CBRE Group Inc. executives have a warning for artificial-intelligence upstarts hunting for data centers: Find a serious partner to guarantee lease payments or face an uphill battle securing new sites.

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How a $100 billion data center campus from developers backed by Blackstone and Brookfield sparked a land rush -- and backlash to match its scale. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash

Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world’s biggest private equity companies.

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Note of caution here for AI bulls. Detailed look at how Blackstone and Brookfield's plans for a $100 billion data center project in Virginia fell apart after fierce local opposition. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A Data Center Revolt By Historic Battlefield Is Now a Blueprint for Backlash

Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world’s biggest private equity companies.

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The price of AI is collapsing, while the cost of building it is not. Equity investors have spent the summer trying to work out who gets caught in between bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Cheap Tokens, Costly Chips and a Missing AI Payoff

The price of AI is collapsing, while the cost of building it is not. Equity investors have spent the summer trying to work out who gets caught in between.

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Blackstone's QTS is pulling out of plans to build data centers on the Digital Gateway site in Virginia. It's a reminder that tech firms’ race for the computing infrastructure to support AI advances is increasingly facing bottlenecks and organized opposition. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Blackstone’s QTS Abandons Massive Data Center in Virginia

Blackstone Inc.’s QTS is walking away from plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, handing a win to residents who fought for years to topple the project.

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The senate budget that totally cuts the sales and use tax exemption for data centers has gotten the most attention. But the house version had some environmental requirements for the industry that some believe help tackle local concerns #valeg #vagov virginiamercury.com/2026/04/…

Here’s what House lawmakers want to require of data centers to keep their sales tax break •...

Legislators are still hammering out differences in the Senate and House versions of the state spending plan, with proposed new standards tied to the industry’s tax exemption.

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Huge. A Brookfield-backed datacenter company is pulling out of a major project in Virginia, that they had been working on for years, due to growing political opposition bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The Fed is asking US banks about their exposure to private credit funds. As investors rush to pull money from nonbank lenders, regulators are trying to understand if strains will spill into the wider financial system bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @kjspeakstruth @sabrush @ellebeyoud

Fed Seeks Details on US Banks’ Exposure to Private Credit Firms

The Federal Reserve is asking major US banks for details about their exposure to private credit following a surge in redemptions from the funds and a rise in troubled loans in the industry, according...

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Private equity is flipping gas plants to power producers rushing to meet AI needs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Private Equity Wins Big by Flipping Gas Plants to Producers Racing to Meet AI Needs

Gas-fired power plants, once unloved bets, are now a hot trade for private equity.

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After repeated efforts to persuade Maduro to leave office, Trump decided in favor of military action wsj.com/politics/trump-madur… a través de @WSJ

Trump Was Skeptical of Ousting Maduro—Until He Wasn’t

Fed up with repeated efforts to persuade Maduro to leave office, the president decided in favor of military action.

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SoftBank is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, as it seeks to take advantage of an AI-driven boom in digital infrastructure bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SoftBank in Talks to Buy Data-Center Investor DigitalBridge

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group Inc., a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, as it seeks to take advantage of an AI-driven boom in digital...

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Questions about whether to advertise on TV. Debates over what the firm stood for. Moving beyond high-octane deals and ramping up retail-friendly, vanilla bets. What it took for Jon Gray to remake Blackstone for the dentist, lawyer and teacher next door. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Jon Gray Is Reshaping Blackstone Into Everybody's Investing Megastore

From viral jogging videos to advocating for new investment approaches, the firm’s heir apparent is transforming a private equity giant built on exclusivity.

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The AI buildout is so big that the owner of Halloween attraction Pennhurst Asylum wants to turn his haunt into data center too. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The AI Buildout Is So Big Even a Haunted House Owner Wants In

The co-owner of Pennsylvania's Pennhurst Asylum has big plans for a data center.

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From horror to hyperscale: The rush to build AI data centers is so intense that even the owner of a hospital-turned haunted house wants in. @JeremyHtweets explains bloom.bg/3JDs2Be
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