Rowan lands $1.5B in corporate debt for 5.5 GW data center pipeline
What's the deal? Rowan Digital InfrastructureDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised more than $1.5 billion in corporate-level debt financing to fund its hyperscale data center development pipeline. The package combines a $600 million upsize of its holding company term loan, a new $590 million revolving credit facility, and a new $355 million letter of credit facility.
Who's involved? Apterra Infrastructure CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led the term loan upsize, while CitibankDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led the revolving credit and letter of credit facilities as lead left arranger and administrative agent. The lender group also includes MizuhoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → Bank, MUFG BankDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Goldman Sachs Bank USADealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Societe Generale, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking CorporationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Huntington National BankDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
What's the endgame? The facilities give Rowan flexible, parent-level capital to move faster through early-stage development — securing land and power and ordering long-lead equipment — across a 5.5 GW pipeline spanning multiple US markets. More than 1.2 GW is already contracted.
Why now? The deal caps an active run: Rowan has raised more than $8 billion from over 40 lenders in the past 18 months, including a $2.9 billion financing for its Temple, Texas campus earlier this year. Three of those lenders — Sumitomo Mitsui, Mizuho, and MUFG — helped lead that deal too.
By the numbers: The financing ranks around the 98th percentile among all US debt rounds tracked in big data, out of a sample of 738. The new facilities carry an accordion feature, letting Rowan grow the revolving credit line to up to $2 billion and the letter of credit facility to up to $1 billion.
"Securing corporate financing from banks of this caliber is a milestone in Rowan's growth and a reflection of the team and platform we've built," said Charley Daitch, chief executive officer of Rowan Digital Infrastructure.
What could go wrong? Rowan's pipeline faces local resistance. Its Quantum Frederick campus in Maryland was blocked in September 2026 after the county executive rejected a development agreement, and Oregon paused air and water permits for data centers in October.
The signal: Capital is still flowing to data center developers, but lenders are growing more selective about project risk. That a fast-growing, investor-backed platform can draw a syndicate of major global banks at parent level shows confidence in the sector — even as permitting hurdles test which projects actually get built.
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