Blackstone’s Schwarzman Says Data Center Business Not a Bubble

Steve SchwarzmanPhotographer: Jaimi Joy/Bloomberg

Blackstone Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwarzman brushed aside talk of a bubble surrounding the data centers powering artificial intelligence, saying the business is conservative.

In a CNBC interview Thursday, Schwarzman cast Blackstone’s role as one of a straightforward service provider to healthy businesses. The company builds data centers and signs long-term leases with credit-worthy partners like Nvidia Corp., he said.