Blackstone Lands Loan for Data Center Cooling Firm Acquisition
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Blackstone levering up to buy Flow Control Holdings—focused on liquid cooling components—confirms that AI demand is turning thermal management into a private-equity rollup theme. If you run data centers or heavy compute, expect tighter vendor consolidation and more pricing power from the cooling stack.
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