A newly formed investment group consisting of Blackrock, Nvidia, Xai, Microsoft and others will get aligned data centers in a $ 40 billion deals, companies Says Wednesday. The move increases fuel to a growing soil grab for infrastructure to support the development of artificial intelligence.
The consortium, called the artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), is planning to deploy $ 30 billion in the equity capital to start, and can invest nearly $ 100 billion when it comes to debt. This is the first transaction of the group, and a sign of how the central data infrastructure became the next stage of AI development.
Aligned designs and run data centers for clients including hyperscalers, business companies and newer cloud providers. It controls 50 campuses across the US and Latin America with more than 5 gigawatts of operating and planned capacity, including owners under development.
The acquisition comes in the middle of a scramble to secure the compute power required for AI workloads. Last month, Nebius Group signed a five -year agreement To supply Microsoft with $ 17.4 billion worth of GPUs. Around the same time, coreweave reached A $ 6.3 billion deal Includes Nvidia to reserve unused server space.
The aligned deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026.
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