🇺🇸Aircraft-engine lessor and loan investor Forum Markets (FRMM) formed a 51%-owned joint venture developing GPU infrastructure.

Forum Markets’ November 13 quarterly filing describes an expansion into AI compute infrastructure during the third quarter of 2026. Its other activities include owning leased commercial aircraft engines and investing in consumer-loan portfolios, including portfolios sourced through originators using AI-driven underwriting or analytics.

The company formed FEAI and related project-level subsidiaries in September, then entered into a limited liability company agreement with Edge Node on October 2. Forum holds a 51% membership interest and serves as the joint venture’s sole manager.

The joint venture is developing data-center real estate, graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure, and compute-reseller arrangements, beginning with Dallas, North Carolina regional hubs, and an initial cohort of tower sites. The broader initiative targets existing powered data centers and selected edge locations; the excerpt does not establish commissioned GPU capacity or revenue from these projects.

Separately, Forum disclosed an April 8 arrangement for optional participation in short-term bridge loans financing NVIDIA chip acquisition and deployment, targeting annualized returns in the mid-teens. A first contemplated transaction involved a U.S. neocloud operator and a potential $25 million–$50 million commitment, but no capital had been deployed under the arrangement; neither the contemplated commitment nor the return target is a completed financing result.