AI Has Fueled $70 Billion in Data Center M&A Talks This Year

The artificial intelligence boom — which has already attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in financing, funding rounds and partnerships — is driving a wave of data center takeover talks, too.

SoftBank Group Corp. became the latest firm to join the fray on Monday, striking a multibillion-dollar deal to buy the digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group Inc. Below is a list of data center-related M&A news from this year alone.