{"id":968040,"date":"2025-10-16T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968040"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:23:01","slug":"ai-infrastructure-push-nvidia-microsoft-join-blackrock-led-group-in-40-billion-data-center-deal-computing-power-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/ai-infrastructure-push-nvidia-microsoft-join-blackrock-led-group-in-40-billion-data-center-deal-computing-power-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"AI infrastructure push: Nvidia, Microsoft join BlackRock-led group in $40 billion data center deal; computing power in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium led by global asset manager BlackRock, along with chipmaker Nvidia and tech giant Microsoft, is set to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Australian financial services major Macquarie in a deal valued at around $40 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition underscores the tech sector\u2019s escalating race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure \u2014 from chips and servers to large-scale data centers that power AI computing and storage needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium led by global asset manager BlackRock, along with chipmaker Nvidia and tech giant Microsoft, is set to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Australian financial services major Macquarie in a deal valued at around $40 billion. The acquisition underscores the tech sector\u2019s escalating race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure \u2014 from chips and servers to large-scale data centers that power AI computing and storage needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}