Volato prices an AI campus at $500M

Volato signed a definitive agreement to merge with Alignment Engine at an approximately $500 million valuation, claiming 154 MW available today at an Ohio campus and a path to at least 480 MW. The Volato transaction release says SOAR remains the public parent and the site is aimed at GPU training and inference; those are stated capacity claims, not energized AI capacity. For operators tracking the $3 trillion data-center capex race, the useful signal is another public-company wrapper trying to turn power access into an AI-infrastructure platform.