The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters.
The largest data-centre deal ever
The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal values the Texas developer at about $40 billion, the largest data-centre acquisition on record.
The seller, Macquarie Asset Management, had owned Aligned since 2018. Back then it ran two sites and 85 megawatts of capacity. Today it spans 51 campuses and more than 6.4 gigawatts, live or planned, across the US and South America.
Then another $5 billion
Closing the deal was not the end of the spending. The consortium also committed a fresh $5 billion in growth capital to expand Aligned’s AI-ready capacity, as Bloomberg reported.
That is the point of the exercise....
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