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A consortium including huge companies like BlackRock Inc. and Nvidia Corp. has reached an agreement to buy Plano-based Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion in one of the biggest deals ever in the global data center market.

Sydney, Australia-based Macquarie Asset Management will sell its entire stake in Aligned to the AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners in the deal announced early on Oct. 15. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026.

AIP was founded by BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), its subsidiary GIP, MGX, Microsoft and Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) to expand AI infrastructure and support future AI-driven economic growth. Its

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