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The Pentagon's biggest loan yet would not build a data centre. It would build the parts

2026-09-11Startups

The Office of Strategic Capital is in talks to lend Fluidstack about 5 billion dollars — roughly six times its previous largest commitment — for manufacturing capacity in data-centre components, not a facility. A defence industrial-base lender now files AI infrastructure alongside rare earths and drone parts.

The 3 billion raise is the smaller number, and a trading firm signed the bigger one

2026-09-10Startups

Crusoe raised over 3 billion dollars at a 30 billion valuation, roughly tripling in eleven months. The catalyst reported days earlier was a 13 billion dollar, five-year contract for GPU capacity — signed not by an AI lab but by Jane Street.