{"id":129594,"date":"2026-08-04T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129594\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:06:09","slug":"anthropics-ai-buildout-may-bring-a-36-billion-debt-bill-and-blackstone-is-already-working-the-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/129594\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s AI Buildout May Bring a $36 Billion Debt Bill \u2014 And Blackstone Is Already Working the Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">Anthropic is exploring another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">debt financing package<\/a> tied to the use of Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google chips, with Blackstone reportedly holding early discussions with investors regarding demand for the potential deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The initial proposal was for nearly $36 billion, sources familiar with the matter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-04\/blackstone-has-pitched-mega-debt-package-for-anthropic-chip-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> told<\/a> Bloomberg. The size, structure and leadership of the financing are still under negotiation, and Blackstone may not end up leading the transaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">If completed, the financing would surpass the $35 billion debt package that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/private-markets\/26\/05\/52887197\/apollo-blackstone-arrange-36-billion-to-fund-anthropics-ai-chips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was agreed upon<\/a> several months ago, arranged by Apollo Global Management and Blackstone. The deal would support Anthropic\u2019s lease of Google\u2019s custom artificial intelligence chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">In June, Apollo said it was leading a $35 billion capital solution as part of Broadcom\u2019s AI XPV Platform, alongside Blackstone. The platform supports more than 20 gigawatts of compute capacity for leading AI labs through 2028. That includes Anthropic\u2019s planned expansion of more than 1 gigawatt of compute infrastructure beginning in mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic IPO<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">This news comes as Anthropic has been meeting with investors ahead of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/private-markets\/26\/07\/60482699\/anthropic-openai-are-making-other-ai-bets-feel-like-second-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">potential blockbuster IPO<\/a> as it prepares to capitalize on strong demand for AI listings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Banks leading the offering are arranging investor meetings in the coming weeks, as the company is reportedly targeting an IPO as early as October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">The Claude maker has hired Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group, and JPMorgan Chase to work on the IPO process. However, details regarding the IPO are ongoing and subject to change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic is exploring another debt financing package tied to the use of Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google chips, with Blackstone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,8111,7776,5892,5891,7707,32488,8114],"class_list":["post-129594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-category-markets","tag-category-private-markets","tag-cms-wordpress","tag-pageisbzpro-bz","tag-tag-anthropic","tag-tag-blackstone","tag-tag-stories-that-matter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}