Brookfield announces $100bn AI initiative with Nvidia and KIA

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Brookfield Asset Management has launched a global AI infrastructure programme that aims to deploy up to $100bn into data centre, compute, and power assets, in partnership with Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).

The initiative is anchored by the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund (BAIIF), which is targeting $10bn in equity commitments.

The fund has secured of capital commitments totalling $5bn at launch from Brookfield, Nvidia, KIA, and other institutional and industry investors.

BAIIF alongside additional co-investor capital and financing will be used for acquiring AI infrastructure assets, up to $100bn, across the value chain.

The investment will cover energy supply, land, data centres, and compute resources.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said: “AI is transforming every industry, and like electricity, it will require every nation to build the infrastructure to power it.

“AI infrastructure demands land, power, and purpose-built supercomputers—and our partnership with Brookfield brings all of these elements together in a ready-to-deploy AI cloud.”

BAIIF will invest in four main areas of physical infrastructure.

These areas include AI factories based on Nvidia’s DSX Vera Rubin-ready reference design, dedicated behind-the-metre power solutions for data centres and AI facilities, and compute infrastructure with integrated solutions for governments and large enterprises.

Additionally, BAIIF will invest in adjacent assets and capital partnerships across the AI value chain.

The fund will focus on projects with contracted cash flows and counterparties with better credit profiles.

As a seed investment for BAIIF, Brookfield has agreed a $5bn framework with Bloom Energy to deploy up to one gigawatt (1GW) of behind-the-metre power systems for data centres and AI factories.

In parallel, Brookfield is launching Radiant as a new Nvidia Cloud Partner to provide full-stack AI services. Radiant will use Brookfield’s land, power, and data centre footprint in multiple regions for this purpose.

It will build AI factories based on Nvidia DSX reference design to “offer the fastest time to revenues and provide direct support to Brookfield’s Sovereign AI programmes.”

Brookfield has also announced partnerships in France and Sweden to support national AI plans in those markets, with up to $30bn of combined AI infrastructure investment earmarked under these arrangements.

Brookfield AI infrastructure head Sikander Rashid said: “AI is creating one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in history, comparable to the formation of the modern power grid and global telecom networks but unfolding at a far greater pace and significantly larger scale.

“This buildout will require $7trn of capital in the next ten years across the entire AI value chain including power, compute, data centres, and beyond.”

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