DUBAI (Reuters) -Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital have signed a partnership aimed at launching a $3 billion global digital infrastructure platform focused on data centres, they said on Thursday.

The platform is intended to “accelerate global compute available to leading hyperscalers amid surging cloud and AI transformation,” the two firms said in a joint statement.

The Gulf country’s $500 billion sovereign wealth fund has been ramping up investments in the booming AI sector, as demand for data storage and computational requirements rise globally.

QIA emerged as one of the latest backers of Anthropic earlier this month, joining the artificial intelligence firm’s record-breaking 13 billion funding round that vaulted its valuation to $183 bill

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