Jensen Huang recently said that AI was more of an infrastructure than a group of chips. Now, Microsoft (MSFT) and BlackRock are partnering to fund AI infrastructure in the U.S. On Sept. 17 the software stalwart and the asset-management titan said they'd join the Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Investment Partnership,

BlackRock will launch an artificial-intelligence fund with software giant Microsoft worth around $30 billion to build data centers and energy projects. The AI partnership will likely feed the growing hunger for computing capacity,

The group aims to assemble $30 billion of initial capital, with a future goal of raising $100 billion, including from debt financing.