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Blue Owl Funds Lead $2.4B AI Factory Equipment Financing for IREN

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Blue Owl Capital announced on August 28, 2026 that funds it manages are leading a $2.4 billion compute equipment financing for IREN Limited, the vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, to fund purchases of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for IREN's Mackenzie data center campus in British Columbia, Can…

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  1. 2026-08-28 18:43 · Unite.AI
    Blue Owl Funds Lead $2.4B AI Factory Equipment Financing for IREN

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