AI cloud’s debt-fueled data-center sprint accelerates
Friday, August 21, 2026 · 10 min
Nebius Group upsized a $5 billion debt sale to fund data centers, as Bitdeer pre-sold Malaysian AI capacity and Anthropic scouts Canadian gigawatts. The AI cloud race is moving from model demos to balance sheets, power, and delivery dates.
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Nebius Group upsized a $5 billion debt sale to fund data centers, as Bitdeer pre-sold Malaysian AI capacity and Anthropic scouts Canadian gigawatts. The AI cloud race is moving from model demos to balance sheets, power, and delivery dates.
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- Nebius Group: Nebius upsizes debt sale to $5 billion to fund data centers, AI platform - The Economic Times — The Economic Times
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- Bitdeer Shares Surge as AI Arm Lands $400M Malaysia Deal — Yahoo Finance
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- Anthropic wants to add ‘gigawatts’ of AI compute in Canada - The Logic — The Logic
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- Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted — Ars Technica
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