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BlackRock-led group pours $5 billion to grow AI-ready data center capacity
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
BlackRock-led consortium (including AI Infrastructure Partnership and MGX) commits $5 billion in growth capital to Aligned Data Centers following a $40 billion acquisition, signalling institutional capital flooding into AI-optimised data centre capacity.
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If you sell power, cooling, or real estate to data centres, the money just moved: $40 billion acquisitions and $5 billion follow-on cheques mean operators are locking in capacity right now, and they'll buy everything they need this quarter to hit those growth targets. Locked-in customers at scale—call them before they're committed to a competitor.
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