"14 Most Important Artificial Intelligence Agreements of 2025 and Their Impacts"

AI Deals in 2025

The year 2025 was filled with significant acquisitions in the field of artificial intelligence and technology. Below, you can find a summary of the 14 most noteworthy AI deals of the year.

1. SoftBank's Acquisition of DigitalBridge

SoftBank entered a process to acquire DigitalBridge with 3 billion dollars in cash. The total valuation of this deal was recorded as 4 billion dollars.

2. Google and Intersect Power Collaboration

Google (Alphabet) committed 4.75 billion dollars in an agreement with Intersect Power, which will be used to power new data centers.

3. Macquarie's Amsterdam Data Center Deal

Igneo Infrastructure Partners and Orix began negotiations for the majority stake in Macquarie's Amsterdam 1 Data Center. The negotiation process is reported to be ongoing.

4. Rumble and Northern Data Transaction

Rumble acquired the German data center operator Northern Data, valuing the deal at approximately 767 million dollars.

5. BlackRock and Aligned Data Centers Deal

A group of investors led by BlackRock executed an excessively large acquisition deal for Aligned Data Centers valued at 40 billion dollars.

6. Bain Capital and Shenzhen Dongyangguang Collaboration

Shenzhen Dongyangguang Industry reached an agreement with Bain Capital to acquire data centers in China for 4 billion dollars.

7. Warburg Pincus and Park Place Technologies Deal

Warburg Pincus provided approximately 3.6 billion dollars in financing for the acquisition of Park Place Technologies.

8. Vantage Data Centers Deal

Vantage Data Centers approached a significant deal, valuing Yondr's data center in Malaysia at 1.6 billion dollars.

9. Pacific Equity Partners Deal

Pacific Equity Partners acquired 75% of Spark New Zealand's data center business for 282 million dollars.

10. MARA Holdings and Exaion Deal

MARA Holdings purchased the majority stake in Exaion, paying 168 million dollars.

11. Apollo Global Management Investment

Apollo Global Management initiated an investment for Stream Data Centers, though details were kept confidential.

12. Warburg Pincus and SC Capital Partners Partnership

This consortium began negotiations for a deal valued between 6 to 7 billion dollars for Global Switch Holdings.

13. Samsung's Acquisition of FläktGroup

Samsung Electronics agreed to pay 1.76 billion dollars to acquire FläktGroup Holding.

14. KKR and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Relation

KKR made an offer exceeding 5 billion dollars for ST Telemedia Global Data Centres.

These deals will play a decisive role in the development of artificial intelligence technology and its potential in the future.