{"id":959819,"date":"2025-09-06T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959819"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:40:12","slug":"metas-backstop-is-linchpin-for-26-billion-ai-data-center-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/metas-backstop-is-linchpin-for-26-billion-ai-data-center-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Backstop Is Linchpin for $26 Billion AI Data-Center Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; When Meta Platforms Inc. turned to lenders to secure $26 billion in debt funding for construction of a sprawling new data center, one key detail made all the difference in fueling a heated bidding war for the deal: the technology giant agreed to a special guarantee on the Louisiana complex.<\/p>\n<p>The financing is being run through a complex arrangement that keeps the debt off of Meta\u2019s books and frees up its balance sheet as it pursues an aggressive push into artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; When Meta Platforms Inc. turned to lenders to secure $26 billion in debt funding for construction of a sprawling new data center, one key detail made all the difference in fueling a heated bidding war for the deal: the technology giant agreed to a special guarantee on the Louisiana complex. The financing is being run through a complex arrangement that keeps the debt off of Meta\u2019s books and frees up its balance sheet as it pursues an aggressive push into artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}