Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure company has entered into advanced discussions with Macquarie-backed Aligned Data Centers to be purchased in a deal worth $40 billion for the technological infrastructure firm.
The firms are not yet ready to strike a deal, but a pact might be unveiled in the coming days, as stated by Bloomberg, claiming that there are people who are aware of the situation.
According to the report, Mubadala, an investor in Aligned and a supporter of MGX, an Abu Dhabi AI investment company, is also participating in the negotiations, and that would invest as an independent part of the transaction.
BlackRock refused to comment on the report; therefore, GIP, Aligned, Macquarie, and Mubadala did not promptly reply to a Reuters request to comment.
The massive adoption of AI in business and personal applications has encouraged a number of companies to invest in AI data centers.
However, McKinsey projects such investments up to $6.7 trillion by 2030 to satisfy the demand in computing power.
A Texas-based company, Aligned, which focuses on infrastructure related to AI, raised over $12 billion in January.
