Abu Ababi -ja Adq, American company PE to invest $ 25 billion in US data center projects

Sovereign Wealth Fund Adq and US Private Capital Capital Partners, or ECP Private Capital, have signed a $ 25 billion investment partnership contract dedicated to increasing energy production, primarily in the United States to serve the needs of data centers, companies announced on Wednesday.

Partnership “aims to service the increasing energy needs of data centers, a company in a cloud of hyperscale and other energy intensive industry,” in a joint statement of companies. “As the continuity and quality of power quality are key to these high growth industries, the need for trapped power plants that are nearby is often a prerequisite. The partnership is focused on the long -term fulfillment of these needs.”

50-50 partnerships will arrange capital with the aim of investing more than $ 25 billion in projects worth 25 gigavate through the development of Greenfield SITE, new buildings and expansion of current infrastructure.

ADQ, founded in 2018 in Abu Dabi, United Arab Emirates, focused on investments in critical infrastructure and global supply chains, while ECP describes himself as the largest private property owner to produce electricity and renewable energy in US ADQ August $ 249 billion in property, while ECP received more than 31 billion.

The announcement of the partnership comes at a time of rapidly increased energy needs – the demand for electricity should increase to the United States after remains a large extent for about 15 years, encouraged by new data centers, factories, electric vehicles, and warmer and longer summers.

And as technological giants like Microsoft,, Amazon and Google Compete to take on a leading role in artificial intelligence revolution, data centers needed to power the growing technology consume Increasing amount of energy.

US Ministry of Energy, In the December 2024 report, He estimates that the growth of loading of data center in the US has tripled in the past decade and that by 2028, electricity consumption at the data center by 2028 has doubled.

According to “a 2024. Report of the International Energy Agency on Electricity,“It is expected that the US Data Center sector” will do more than one-third of additional demand by 2026. “Globally, the total electricity consumption of data centers could reach more than 1,000 hours of teravat, or TWH, 2026-this is the estimated 460 TWH in 2022.

The agreement comes because President Adq’s National Security Advisor United Arab Emirates Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited Washington, meeting with the President Donald Trump and Elon muskAmong other political and business leaders.

The UAE worked to strengthen the US connections with AI and seeks greater access to US technology to build its own infrastructure and diversify its carbon -headed economy.

Small, sheikhdo oil bay has intensively persecuted investments in artificial intelligence, data centers and energy transition technologies, as the AI ​​dominance race brings together Tempo.

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