BlackRock’s GIP Buys Aligned Data Centers in $40 Billion Bet (3)

Investors led by BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners agreed to buy Aligned Data Centers in a $40 billion deal, one of the asset manager’s largest infrastructure investments ever that comes as Wall Street races to claim a stake in the artificial-intelligence boom.

MGX, an AI investment company established by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co., will invest alongside GIP, according to a statement Wednesday that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. The buyers are purchasing the company from Macquarie Asset Management, which made its first investment in Aligned in April 2018.

GIP and its partners, which also include ...