DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Investment / M&A / Financing, BlackRock
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR for $500bn financing program
Chip company aims to 'secure capital at attractive rates' for Nvidia customers
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Meta and BlackRock team up for data center in El Paso, Texas
Will offer 1GW of compute capacity
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MGX, AIP, and BlackRock’s GIP complete $40bn acquisition of Aligned Data Centers
Acquisition is the largest-ever in data centers
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Aligned raises $1.19bn in asset-backed securities
The latest series in its master trust
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Edge data center firm Armada raises $230m in latest funding round
Largest round to date
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Satellite firm Astranis secures $450m in new funding
Company closes Series E round and adds credit facility to fund production
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Modular data center provider EPG secures $100m Series B+ funding
Follows Series B funding in January - secures Alibaba, Temasek, and BlackRock as investors
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Quantum computing firm IQM secures $50m financing from BlackRock
Funding was secured ahead of its announcement to go public last month
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GIP, EQT strike $10.7bn deal to acquire US power producer AES
AES is one of the biggest providers of renewable power to the US data center market
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Axelera AI raises more than $250m to boost development of Edge AI hardware
Funding round included participation from BlackRock, European Investment Council Fund, and Samsung Catalyst Fund
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DC Blox secures $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary
The funds will be used for future DC expansion
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BlackRock raises $12.5bn for AI partnership with Microsoft and MGX
Ultimately aims to raise $30bn in equity
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ACS and BlackRock's GIP form €2bn data center development JV
Will manage pipeline across four continents
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Cooling firm Xnrgy secures investment from BlackRock, Temasek, others
Second investment round this year for cooling firm
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Aligned Data Centers sold to BlackRock and MGX in record-breaking $40bn deal
Set to close in the first half of 2026
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Spain’s ACS looks to sell stake in data center business to BlackRock’s GIP – report
Construction firm looks to raise €1 billion from sale of data center and energy biz
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AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
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BlackRock to invest $678m in UK data center venture
Gravity Edge will buy underutilized data centers
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PsiQuantum raises $1bn in funding, including from Nvidia's venture capital arm
Quantum computing company received a $7bn valuation
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ITG Communications to buy Tilson for $22m following auction win
A sale could be complete by the end of the month
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Talen Energy acquires two gas plants within PJM market in data center power push
Acquired the assets for $3.5bn
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Kuwait wealth fund joins Microsoft and BlackRock’s $30bn AI Infrastructure Partnership
Will be the first non-founder financial anchor for the partnership
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Global Infrastructure Partners to invest more than $1bn in Thai data centers
BlackRock-owned firm to partner with CP Group and True IDC
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Nvidia and Elon Musk's xAI join $30bn AI data center fund from Microsoft and BlackRock
Fund yet to announce any investments
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Optical interconnect startup Celestial AI raises $250m
Brings total raised by the company to $515m
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BlackRock’s Mainova WebHouse secure €475m financing for Frankfurt data centers
German company to launch first Frankfurt facility soon
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AI cloud company CoreWeave secures another $650m investment
Jane Street, Magnetar, Fidelity, and Macquarie lead latest round
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Microsoft and Abu Dhabi's MGX to back $30bn BlackRock AI infrastructure fund
Nvidia to advise the data center and energy investment effort