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Technology continued to be an industry of particular focus for privateequity (PE) through 2024. Blackstones $16 billion acquisition of data center platform Airtrunk was the largest deal of Q3 2024, according to Ernst & Young data, and tech deals accounted for 40% of all privateequity deployment by value in the third quarter.
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