Asset management firm BlackRock has joined forces with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft, Nvidia, and xAI to purchase Aligned Data Centers (Aligned) through an investment consortium called the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251014427963/en/AI-Infrastructure-Partnership-AIP-MGX-and-BlackRocks-Global-Infrastructure-Partners-GIP-to-Acquire-All-Equity-in-Aligned-Data-Centers” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251014427963/en/AI-Infrastructure-Partnership-AIP-MGX-and-BlackRocks-Global-Infrastructure-Partners-GIP-to-Acquire-All-Equity-in-Aligned-Data-Centers” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP). Aligned is one of the largest data center companies in the world, having a total of planned and operational capacity of 5GW spread across 50 campuses. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251014427963/en/AI-Infrastructure-Partnership-AIP-MGX-and-BlackRocks-Global-Infrastructure-Partners-GIP-to-Acquire-All-Equity-in-Aligned-Data-Centers” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251014427963/en/AI-Infrastructure-Partnership-AIP-MGX-and-BlackRocks-Global-Infrastructure-Partners-GIP-to-Acquire-All-Equity-in-Aligned-Data-Centers” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>the company, the data center operator is present globally, including sites in Northern Virginia, Chicago, Dallas,…
