Mubadala invests in US-based Aligned Data Centers

Mubadala has invested in Aligned Data Centers,  a pan-Americas data centre company headquartered in the US.

With this investment, Mubadala will become a minority partner alongside majority partners managed by Macquarie Asset Management.

Aligned Data Centers offers both scale data centres (colocation) and build-to-scale (build-to-suit) solutions to support global hyperscale and enterprise customers, helping to meet the demand for sustainable and scalable infrastructure.

Aligned Data Centers’ footprint will span more than 2.5GW of critical capacity across 40+ data centres at full buildout.

While majority of the group’s operations remain in North America, Aligned recently expanded into Latin America with its acquisition of LatAm data center provider, ODATA.

The group’s growing LatAm operations include data centers in Brazil, Chile, Colombiaz and Mexico.

Khaled Abdulla Al Qubaisi, chief executive officer of Real Estate and Infrastructure Investments at Mubadala, said: “Mubadala is pleased to invest in Aligned, one of the fastest-growing and dynamic data centre providers in the Americas. Our investment will support Aligned’s rapid expansion, further reinforcing the company’s position as a preferred partner in the Pan-American data center market. In addition to Aligned’s continued business growth, we are further excited by its AI-ready status, making it strategically positioned to support infrastructure requirements for a broad set of AI, ML, and DL services.”

Andrew Schaap, chief executive officer at Aligned Data Centers, said: “This investment is a testament to our world-class data centre solutions, high-calibre teams, and ability to quickly address the growing capacity demands and requirements of our loyal hyperscale and enterprise customers across the Americas.”

Mubadala increases global presence

The Aligned investment builds on Mubadala’s growing digital infrastructure presence in the US.

In June, the company committed to invest $500m in Brightspeed, a US-based broadband and telecommunications services company, which is aiming to deliver fibre services that can reach up to three million homes and businesses over the next five years.

The investment is part of the company’s rapidly expanding global digital infrastructure portfolio headed by its executive director, Mounir Barakat.

In 2022, Mubadala invested $350m into Princeton Digital Group, a leading pan-Asian data center company focused on expanding world-class data centre services to meet increasing demand across Asia.

It also invested £800 million into CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform.