Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), an international alternative investment manager, announced significant data center transactions in the U.S. by Ares Real Assets funds, underscoring an expansion of Ares’ data center exposure and the advantages via collaboration across its digital infrastructure and real estate investment capabilities.
In one investment, the Ares Digital Infrastructure business, “through an Ares fund, has secured a 314-acre site situated along the I-95 South data center corridor in Spotsylvania County of Northern Virginia.”
The data center development site is expected to be “designed, delivered and operated by Ada Infrastructure, Ares’ vertically integrated global data center platform within the Ares Digital Infrastructure business.”
Phase one of the development is expected “to comprise two data center buildings totaling 200 MW of IT load capacity.”
The campus has secured critical utility infrastructure and will “utilize Ada’s design and customization capabilities, including flexible cooling system configurations that can accommodate next generation GPU loads.”
In a separate investment, an Ares Real Estate fund “has acquired two 2025-vintage hyperscale data centers located in Leesburg, Virginia.”
Totaling 745,000 square feet and 165 MW of IT load capacity, the data centers are fully leased “under 15-year triple-net agreements with a leading, investment-grade hyperscale customer, providing long-term income stability and portfolio diversification.”
Ares continues to reinforce its role in the fast-growing New Economy sectors—including logistics and data centers—which “are benefiting from the acceleration of new digital technologies, global supply chain shifts and the evolution in how communities live and work.”
As noted in the update, Ares Management Corporation is a global alternative investment manager “offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes.”
They seek to advance stakeholders’ long-term goals by “providing flexible capital that supports businesses and creates value for investors.”
By collaborating across their investment groups, they aim to generate consistent and “investment returns throughout market cycles.”
As of Sept 30, ’25, Ares Management Corporation’s platform had over “$595 billion of assets under management, with operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. ”
As mentioned in the announcement, Ada Infrastructure is serving as a data center platform with a global footprint “that serves hyperscale and enterprise customers with scalable capacity.”
Vertically integrated within the existing digital infrastructure business of Ares Management Corporation, Ada Infrastructure now reportedly has “nine in-flight campuses as well as a fast follow pipeline across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas.”
