{"id":57598,"date":"2025-10-03T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:20:07","slug":"gip-nears-deal-to-buy-aligned-data-centers-for-about-40-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57598\/","title":{"rendered":"GIP Nears Deal to Buy Aligned Data Centers for About $40 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1013340Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Global Infrastructure Partners<\/a> is in advanced talks to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MQG:AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Macquarie<\/a>-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2259560D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Aligned Data Centers<\/a>, targeting a major beneficiary of the AI spending boom in what would be one of the year\u2019s biggest deals, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Aligned could be valued at about $40 billion in a transaction, said one of the people. An agreement could be announced within days, the people added, asking not to be identified because the information is private. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Macquarie-backed Aligned Data Centers, targeting a major beneficiary of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,16544,363,364,48030,910,138,1568,868,16791,1702,48029,48031,220,111,139,69,145,3912],"class_list":["post-57598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-blackrock-inc","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-construction","tag-deals","tag-illinois","tag-infrastructure","tag-investment-company","tag-kkr-co-inc","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}