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Apollo Backs $5.4 Billion Valor and xAI Data Center Compute Infrastructure Transaction with $3.5 Billion Capital Solution
GPU Lease Financing to Support xAI’s Second Data CenterNEW YORK, Jan. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo (NYSE: APO) today announced that Apollo-managed funds and affiliates (the “Apollo Funds”) have led a $3.5 billion capital solution for Valor Compute Infrastructure L.P. (“VCI”), a fund managed by Valor Equity Partners (“Valor”), to support its $5.4 billion acquisition and lease of data center compute infrastructure, including NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, to a subsidiary of xAI Corp (“xAI”). The financ
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