Nvidia and xAI join BlackRock’s $30 billion AI infrastructure fund
The tech rivals are joining forces in one of the largest private sector pushes for AI infrastructure.
Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI are the latest to join a major AI infrastructure consortium backed by Microsoft, investment fund MGX, and BlackRock, the companies announced Wednesday. The move strengthens a rampant effort to expand AI data centers and energy facilities across the US as competition in the space heats up.
Now named the AI Infrastructure Partnership, the Microsoft- and BlackRock-backed group was formed last year with an initial $30 billion investment to help build data centers and support applications like ChatGPT. Nvidia initially joined as a technical advisor and MGX was an investor in xAI’s recent $6 billion Series C raise.
The expansion comes two months after President Donald Trump introduced Stargate, a separate AI infrastructure initiative backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle. Stargate aims to mobilize up to $500 billion, with investors already committing $100 billion for immediate deployment. Still, with Nvidia and xAI now on board, the AI Infrastructure Partnership is on pace to be one of the biggest private sector pushes yet.