{"id":990951,"date":"2026-02-10T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990951"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:12:51","slug":"australian-ai-infrastructure-developer-firmus-lands-10-billion-debt-package-from-blackstone-coatue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/australian-ai-infrastructure-developer-firmus-lands-10-billion-debt-package-from-blackstone-coatue\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian AI infrastructure developer Firmus lands $10 billion debt package from Blackstone, Coatue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian artificial intelligence \u200dcompany Firmus said on Monday it had finalised \u2060a $10 billion debt funding package led by global private equity firm Blackstone and Coatue Management, a New \u200cYork-based technology \u200cinvestor. <\/p>\n<p>Firmus said the funding would be used to build \u200cthe next phase of its Project Southgate, the company&#8217;s initiative to develop AI training and inference infrastructure, which includes data centres, across Australia. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative, done in collaboration with CDC Data Centres and U.S. chip \u200cgiant Nvidia \u200dis expected to reach a \u200dcapacity of up to 1.6 gigawatts over \u200cthe next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian artificial intelligence \u200dcompany Firmus said on Monday it had finalised \u2060a $10 billion debt funding package led by global private equity firm Blackstone and Coatue Management, a New \u200cYork-based technology \u200cinvestor. Firmus said the funding would be used to build \u200cthe next phase of its Project Southgate, the company&#8217;s initiative to develop AI training and inference infrastructure, which includes data centres, across Australia. The initiative, done in collaboration with CDC Data Centres and U.S. chip \u200cgiant Nvidia \u200dis expected to reach a \u200dcapacity of up to 1.6 gigawatts over \u200cthe next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990951","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}