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title: "Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-the-pentagon-is-in-talks-to-lend-roughly-5b-to-neocloud-a2afa110
published: 2026-09-10T22:10:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-10 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-the-pentagon-is-in-talks-to-lend-roughly-5b-to-neocloud-a2afa110

Wall Street Journal : Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank — Fluidstack, an AI infrastructure company, is being advised on the loan by the bank started by Palmer Luckey, an early supporter of Donald Trump

In this story: [Department of Defense](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/department-of-defense)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260910/p39#a260910p39)

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