Data4 closes Europe’s largest digital infra raise

Brookfield-owned Data4 has closed a €3.3 billion debt refinancing, the largest digital infrastructure debt raise in Europe

Aurea Finvest plans 800MW São Paulo data centre

Aurea Finvest, a Brazilian real estate investment and development company, is planning to construct an 800MW capacity data centre in Sumaré, São Paulo

EXA Infra picks up D9 subsea asset at steep discount

London-listed Digital 9 Infrastructure has agreed the sale of Aqua Comms, a subsea fibre company operating in the Atlantic and Irish Sea, to EXA Infrastructure for net proceeds of $48 million

KKR takes stake in GDH for ME data centres

KKR has acquired a stake in Gulf Data Hub as part of a strategic partnership to roll-out a data centre platform across the Middle East

HKBN syndicates loan ahead of takeover

TPG Capital and MBK Partners-backed Hong Kong-listed telecom operator, HKBN, have launched an up to $867.5 million 5-year senior sustainability-linked term loan in general syndication ahead of its potential takeover, IJGlobal can reveal

Rowan secures $975m for Bauxite data centre in Maryland

Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, has secured $975 million in construction financing for the first phase of its hyperscale data centre campus in Maryland

PowerHouse plans 400MW Kentucky data centre

PowerHouse Data Centers and Poe Companies are planning the development of a 400MW data centre campus in Louisville, Kentucky

Stonepeak closes Boundary Street acquisition, US

Stonepeak’s acquisition of Boundary Street Capital, a private credit manager focusing on digital infrastructure and technology, has closed

ESR, CloudHQ to build $2bn Japan DC

ESR Group and CloudHQ have entered into a JV for the former's $2 billion Cosmosquare Data Centre campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan

Aligned raises $12bn for Americas data centre expansion

Aligned Data Centres has completed a $12 billion debt and equity fundraising round to support its platform expansion, with Macquarie leading the equity component

AFC lists inaugural perpetual hybrid bond

Africa Finance Corporation has priced a $500 million perpetual hybrid bond, marking the DFI’s debut hybrid bond issuance

CIF issues inaugural $500m bond

DFI-backed lender Climate Investment Funds has issued a debut $500 million climate finance bond to attract private sector investment to its clean energy financing programmes

Edged, Merlin Properties plan Spanish data centres

Edged Energy and Merlin Properties will work with Extremadura regional government to develop 2 large-scale data centre campuses in Spain

USTDA finances Nigerian fibre feasibility study

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has awarded funding to Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy for a telecom infrastructure feasibility study

Stack forays into Malaysia DC market

Stack Infrastructure is developing a 220MW data centre in Johor Bahru, marking its entry into the Malaysian market