BlackRock Kicks Off $12.3 Billion Bond Sale for Meta Data Center

BlackRock Inc. began marketing $12.3 billion of high-grade bonds to fund a Meta Platforms Inc. data center project in El Paso, Texas, testing investor appetite amid concerns about excessive AI infrastructure spending. The bonds, offered by a BlackRock-linked holding company, will finance a campus expected to provide up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity for AI workloads, with BlackRock subsidiaries holding an 80% stake and Meta owning 20%.

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