BlackRock and Nvidia-Backed Consortium Inks $40B AI Data Center Deal

Published: 16 Oct 2025

Author: Precedence Research

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Leading investor groups in the global technology sector, such as BlackRock, Microsoft, and Nvidia, signed a deal worth $40 billion to buy the largest data center operator, which has nearly 80 sites, in a single transaction. This is to ensure uninterrupted computing capacity for AI. 
The first deal for the AI infrastructure partnership was formed last year with the help of funds collected by Abu Dhabi-based MGX and Elon Musk's start-up, which is popularly known as xAI, as a leading investor.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who was also a former chair of the AI infrastructure partnership, said, “With this investment in Aligned Data Centers, we further our goal of delivering the infrastructure necessary to power the future of AI"

The acquisition is the latest in a series of dominant deals involving big tech firms and Silicon Valley startups, which have proliferated due to the AI wave across the globe. Also, by recognizing the influence of AI infrastructure, leading tech leaders like Alphabet, Amazon.com, Meta, Microsoft and CoreWeave are planning to spend a whopping amount of $400 billion on AI infrastructure this year, according to the sources, highlighting that AI is not just a buzz word but a breakthrough technology which is guiding every sector with new avenues and opportunities as well.

A startup at the heart of the AI boom has demonstrated deals in recent days with leaders in chipmaking, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, and Broadcom that may cost over $1 trillion to secure nearly 26 gigawatts of computing capacity. This is enough to power almost 20 million U.S. homes. Similarly, Meta Platform is developing several multi-gigawatt AI data centers, including Prometheus and Hyperion, which can be highly scalable, nearly up to 5 gigawatts.

Privately held data centers have over 5 gigawatts of operation and huge capacity located across 50 campuses in the U.S. and Latin America. The portfolio manager at Nvidia highlights these efforts as future assets for investors. He added further,” They’re looking at rapid expansion to meet AI demand and optimize it.”