BlackRock is leading a debt sale targeting at least $12 billion for its massive new El Paso data-center project backed by Meta Platforms people familiar with the matter said. The world’s largest investment firm, along with its infrastructure and private-credit arms, owns an 80% stake in the Texas data-center project, while Meta Platforms, which will use the data centers, owns the other 20%. BlackRock has been plowing tens of billions of dollars into data-center investments over the past year, including a $40 billion deal to buy Aligned Data Centers.
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Meta crushed earnings five quarters running yet the stock has gone nowhere, and a $145 billion capex bet is the reason investors are split. Whether that spending becomes a catalyst or a liability depends on what happens next quarter.

<body><p>STORY: Tennessee state claims Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis.</p><p>Meta Platforms goes to court on Monday – one of several trials in the coming weeks...</p><p>testing allegations that the company's social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive.</p><p>Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state's consumer protection law...</p><p>by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use...</p><p>and misleading the public about its safety.</p><p>The lawsuit, filed by the attorney general's office, claims Meta failed to disclose extensive internal research..</p><p>showing Instagram could harm teens.</p><p>And that it continued offering features it knew were dangerous without warning users.</p><p>A Meta spokesperson said in a statement on Friday that the company already has built-in controls...</p><p>to protect the hundreds of thousands of Tennessee teens who use social media every day.</p><p>The company has argued the state's claims are based on the content posted on Instagram by its users...</p><p>and that a federal law shields the company from liability for third-party content.</p><p>The trial is slated to last for seven weeks.</p><p>It's scheduled to overlap with at least two other trials against the company in courts in California.</p><p>Meta faces thousands of lawsuits over similar claims in both state and federal court.</p><p>Nearly every state in the country has filed claims against Meta over its platforms’ alleged impact on children.</p></body>
Wall Street keeps punishing Meta for its massive AI spending bill, but three specific numbers buried in the earnings data tell a completely different story about where this company is actually headed.
Microsoft plans to use AMD’s Helios AI infrastructure platform and EPYC data-center processors to power more of its Azure cloud-computing services, the two companies said Monday. AMD stock jumped 5.1% to $521.23 on Monday after the market open, while the rose 0.7%. A combination of Microsoft and AMD technology will power new tools for data processing, electronic design automation, and inference, or running AI models.
(Updates with a statement from Meta in the fourth paragraph.) Meta Platforms (META) is set to go
A surprise addition to AMD's AI customer roster has analysts scrambling to revise their price targets, and the chipmaker's upcoming July event could determine whether shares reclaim their recent highs or face a painful reset.
Wall Street closed sharply lower on Friday, pulled down by tech and discretionary stocks.
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Bezos-backed startup targets the next chipmaking breakthrough
Technology stocks were advancing premarket Monday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SP
Bezos-Backed CuspAI Unites Nvidia, Meta to Tackle Chipmaking's Biggest Challenge
The deal could be worth up to $10 billion.
The U.K. startup, now valued at $2.6 billion, is directing 80% of its near-term research toward semiconductor materials
Anthropic's potential $10B AI computing deal with Meta could boost AI infrastructure demand and lift Meta-focused communication services ETFs like XLC and VOX.
Meta Platforms (META) is set to go on trial in Tennessee on Monday over allegations that it violated
Jefferies has raised its price target on Arm Holdings PLC (NASDAQ:ARM) to $320 from $290, arguing that orders for the chip designer's AGI CPU have risen further since full-year results as agentic artificial intelligence fuels demand for processors. The broker repeated its 'buy' rating on the...
By Diana Novak Jones July 20 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state's claims that Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several
By Diana Novak Jones July 20 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state's claims that Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several
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Mark Zuckerberg's company is going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI) -- but sacrifices may need to be made.
The proposal, initiated by Anthropic in June, would see the AI company pay Meta in monthly instalments for access to its infrastructure.
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Morgan Stanley has emerged as Wall Street’s chief architect of the financing structures underpinning the AI boom, devising new debt and equity...
AMD and Anthropic are reportedly in the test phase, and a partnership could potentially be announced at AMD’s flagship conference next week.
The team debates whether Meta's new AI, semiconductor manufacturing, and prediction market initiatives are value-added ideas or wasted capital for the tech juggernaut.
Every headline says Google is hemorrhaging its best AI minds to Anthropic and OpenAI, and that narrative has created one of the most exploitable gaps between fear and reality in the market right now.
Artificial intelligence is creating a new industrial buildout unlike anything investors have seen in decades. Hyperscalers are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to data centers, chips, and power infrastructure because AI workloads require an entirely new computing backbone. The biggest question is shifting from whether AI demand exists to which companies will capture the ... Can Nebius Group Really 10X by 2030? The Math Says Yes
Although it may be unloved, this big tech stock is worth considering.