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22 Oct 2026, 6:51 AM	TechCrunch	3.5	Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown Blackstone’s Jas Khaira said at TechCrunch Disrupt that fears over debt funding the AI buildout are overblown. Blackstone has $1.3 trillion in assets under management, launched BXN1 as a San Francisco hub led by Khaira, and says it is the largest owner of compute outside the hyperscalers. It committed $5 billion to Crux AI, a neocloud working with Google to commercialize custom TPUs, backed chip startup Etched, and pioneered lending to neoclouds using committed customer contracts and pledged GPUs as collateral. Why: If you rent GPU capacity from neoclouds, the concrete signal is that financing is being structured around committed customer contracts and GPUs as collateral, so ask a provider how its capacity is financed before signing a multi-year commitment. But the article gives no loan terms, default data, or pricing, so this is an investor’s opinion, not evidence to change procurement on its own. ai-infrastructure compute-financing neoclouds blackstone

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22 Oct 2026, 6:51 AM

TechCrunch

3.5

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira said at TechCrunch Disrupt that fears over debt funding the AI buildout are overblown. Blackstone has $1.3 trillion in assets under management, launched BXN1 as a San Francisco hub led by Khaira, and says it is the largest owner of compute outside the hyperscalers. It committed $5 billion to Crux AI, a neocloud working with Google to commercialize custom TPUs, backed chip startup Etched, and pioneered lending to neoclouds using committed customer contracts and pledged GPUs as collateral.

Why: If you rent GPU capacity from neoclouds, the concrete signal is that financing is being structured around committed customer contracts and GPUs as collateral, so ask a provider how its capacity is financed before signing a multi-year commitment. But the article gives no loan terms, default data, or pricing, so this is an investor’s opinion, not evidence to change procurement on its own.