The AI buildout has gotten so expensive that even the world's richest companies are finding new ways to pay for it. Meta spent a year engineering a $30 billion financing for its Hyperion data center that kept the debt off its own balance sheet, tucking the project into a special purpose vehicle and bringing in Blue Owl as an equity partner to get bond investors comfortable. Elsewhere, private credit funds, insurers, and even chipmakers are underwriting the computing boom through new spins on leases, asset-backed loans, and other bespoke deal structures.
Join us for a conversation with three people shaping how these deals get done: John Greenwood, global head of Infrastructure and Real Asset Finance within Goldman Sachs' Capital Solutions Group, who cut his teeth co-heading the bank's Americas Structured Finance business before turning that expertise toward the AI-driven infrastructure boom; Matthew A'Hearn, head of Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure, who founded the firm's predecessor, IPI Partners, and now oversees a business that's become one of the major financiers of hyperscaler data centers; and Steven Messina, global head of Skadden's Finance Group, who represents the banks and investors writing the terms on these transactions.
The conversation will be moderated by Dakin Campbell, our finance reporter who covers the money behind the AI boom.
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
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