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Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027 (Hans Nichols/Axios)
Hans Nichols / Axios: Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027 — AI companies, pr
Hans Nichols / Axios: Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027 — AI companies, private equity firms and unions are looking beyond 2026 in the data center debate, banding together to form …
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Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-28