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Eagle Point leads $1.3bn holdco loan in Anthropic data center financing

A CLO specialist's infrastructure team is taking holding-company risk inside Anthropic's $16bn Texas data center buildout.

Creditflux reported on August 19 that Eagle Point led a $1.3bn holding-company loan. The loan sits inside a $16bn Texas data center financing tied to Anthropic. It came from the CLO specialist's infrastructure credit team.

In a holding-company structure, the parent borrows while the project debt carries construction and operating risk. Creditflux's report does not say where this piece ranks. The appeal for a CLO manager is clear anyway: a single $1.3bn position, a coupon that compensates for the subordination, and no project-level exposure on the books. That slice is roughly 8 percent of the total; the report leaves the rest of the financing undescribed.

Eagle Point is a different kind of entrant to this corner of the AI infrastructure market. PWD covered the first manager list for NVIDIA's $500bn compute push this month. All six names were incumbents. Eagle Point's home market is CLOs, and its infrastructure credit team, Creditflux says, is growing. A named holdco role in an Anthropic-tied data center lets that team establish itself without underwriting the entire $16bn project.

The next comparable deal will show whether holdco risk on an AI buildout prices like infrastructure credit or like the leveraged loan exposure Eagle Point already knows.

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