Dubai, UAE — Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, said Wednesday it has invested in Aligned Data Centers (Aligned), a pan-Americas data center company.
With this investment, Mubadala will become a minority partner alongside majority partners managed by Macquarie Asset Management.
Aligned offers both Scale Data Centers (colocation) and Build-to-Scale (build-to-suit) solutions to support global hyperscale and enterprise customers. Aligned’s footprint will span more than 2.5 GW of critical capacity across 40+ data centers at full buildout.
While a 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.
This positions Aligned among the largest private data center operators in the Americas. The group’s growing LatAm operations include data centers in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.
The Aligned investment builds on Mubadala’s growing digital infrastructure presence in the U.S. In June of this year, Mubadala committed to investing $500 million in Brightspeed, a U.S.-based broadband and telecommunications services company, which is aiming to deliver fiber services that can reach up to three million homes and businesses over the next five years.
The investment is part of Mubadala’s expanding global digital infrastructure portfolio headed by its Executive Director, Mounir Barakat.
In 2022, Mubadala invested $350 million into Princeton Digital Group, a pan-Asian data center company focused on expanding world-class data center services to meet increasing demand across Asia. Mubadala has also invested £800 million into CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full-fiber platform.
Khaled Abdulla Al Qubaisi, Chief Executive Officer of Real Estate and Infrastructure Investments at Mubadala, said, “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.”
