BlackRock and a consortium of infrastructure partners have entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data center portfolio in a transaction valued between $20 billion and $25 billion. The deal, if closed, would mark the largest single data center asset acquisition in history and BlackRock's most substantial physical infrastructure deployment in the region.
Stack Infrastructure operates fourteen hyperscale-ready facilities across Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, and Mumbai, totaling approximately 1.2 gigawatts of critical IT load capacity. The portfolio generated $1.8 billion in annualized revenue as of Q3 2024, with occupancy rates above 92 percent and weighted-average lease terms extending 8.4 years. BlackRock's Infrastructure Partners V fund, which closed at $15.2 billion in March 2024, is anchoring the consortium alongside two unnamed sovereign wealth funds and a Canadian pension allocator. The exclusivity window runs 90 days from announcement, with binding documentation expected by late May.
The acquisition represents a calculated pivot in how institutional capital prices digital infrastructure exposure in Asia. Data center assets in the region have historically traded at 12x to 14x forward EBITDA; this transaction implies a multiple near 16x, reflecting scarcity value in markets where hyperscale tenants—Microsoft, Google, ByteDance—are locked into multi-year capacity commitments with minimal substitution risk. Singapore alone accounts for $7 billion of the portfolio's estimated value, despite a government moratorium on new data center construction that remains in effect until at least 2026. Stack's facilities there sit on land parcels grandfathered under prior zoning, a regulatory moat that cannot be replicated. Tokyo and Seoul add 480 MW of capacity in submarkets where power grid access has become the binding constraint; new entrants face 24-month interconnection queues.
This move also signals BlackRock's thesis that Asia-Pacific will absorb 40 percent of incremental AI training and inference workloads through 2027, a figure derived from hyperscaler capex guidance disclosed in recent earnings. The firm has deployed $4.3 billion into data infrastructure globally since January 2023, but this represents its first controlling stake in an operating portfolio at this scale. Stack's existing tenant roster includes anchor agreements with a major cloud provider locked through 2031 and a social media company with contractual take-or-pay clauses tied to 600 MW of reserved capacity. The portfolio's revenue profile is 83 percent contracted, with embedded annual escalators of 3.2 percent indexed to local CPI.
Operators and allocators should monitor three developments. First, whether BlackRock secures debt financing at the portfolio level or consolidates leverage onto its fund balance sheet; early indications suggest a 60 percent loan-to-value structure with pricing near SOFR plus 275 basis points, tighter than recent digital infrastructure comps. Second, Stack's remaining North American and European assets, which were not included in this carve-out, are expected to be marketed separately by Q3 2025, potentially fetching another $8 billion to $10 billion. Third, regulatory clearance in Singapore and South Korea carries execution risk; both jurisdictions have tightened foreign investment review processes for critical infrastructure, with approval timelines stretching to six months.
The transaction closes a window. Stack's Asia portfolio has been shopped quietly since October, with three other bidders—including a Middle Eastern sovereign fund and a Japanese trading house consortium—eliminated in the final round. BlackRock's willingness to underwrite the full $25 billion figure without syndication suggests conviction that power-constrained, hyperscale-occupied data centers in Tier 1 Asian markets will trade at premiums that make today's entry look conservative by 2026.
The takeaway
BlackRock's $20B-$25B Stack Asia deal prices hyperscale data centers at a 16x EBITDA premium to regional comps, betting scarcity and tenant lock-in justify the multiple.
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