The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date.

US-based Aligned Data Centers, currently owned by Macquarie Asset Management, is being sold to a consortium led through the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) - a group formed last year by BlackRock, its Global Infrastructure Partners unit, Abu Dhabi's state-backed MGX, and Microsoft, later joined by Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and Singapore's Temasek.

ADC's portfolio includes 50 datacenters in North and South America amounting to 5 GW of capacity - or at least that's what it'll have once all of its plan

See Full Page