Blackstone is investing $300 million into a company called DDN. The investment, the first outside funding for the Chatsworth, Calif.-based company, values DDN at $5 b

Over half of the investment is reserved for infrastructure. Microsoft President Brad Smith frames AI investment as key to economic growth.

Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani promised a $20 billion investment in the booming U.S. data center industry in the coming years, he and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday at Trump's home in Palm Beach,

Microsoft is one of the biggest spenders, followed closely by Google and AWS, Bloomberg Intelligence said. Its estimate of Microsoft’s capital spending on AI, at $62.4 billion for calendar 2025, is lower than Smith’s claim that the company will invest $80 billion in the fiscal year to June 30, 2025.

The software giant's president, Brad Smith, said Friday in a blog post that more than half of the $80 billion would be spent in the U.S.

Dubai developer DAMAC Properties will invest at least $20 billion "over a very short period of time" in the U.S., primarily in data centers in the middle of the country, President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday,

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that a company from the UAE will invest $20 billion to build data centers in the U.S., primarily in the Midwest and Sun Belt.