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A $36B debt deal is shopped to buy TPUs for one lab to lease

development2026-05-29

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Apollo and Blackstone are shopping a roughly $36 billion debt deal to buy Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease, with Broadcom backstopping the largest tranches.

Reported metric: $36B

Reporting date: 2026-05-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A $36B debt deal is shopped to buy TPUs for one lab to lease
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Reporting date: 2026-05-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-29-thirty-six-billion-of-debt-to-lease-tpus
Claim: Apollo and Blackstone are shopping a roughly $36 billion debt deal to buy Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease, with Broadcom backstopping the largest tranches.
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- Welcome to May 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-29-2026
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