Fengate raises $1.1bn for fourth fund

Fengate Asset Management has raised $1.1 billion at the final close of its fourth infrastructure fund, exceeding its $1 billion target

XTX Markets fronts €1bn data centre, Finland

Venture capital firm XTX Markets will invest a €1 billion financing package into developing a major data centre campus in Kajaani, Finland

Funds & Investors Report FY24 – slow and steady

Full year 2024 proved to be the least active in recent times for fundraising by closed-ended, unlisted infrastructure funds, capping off the 12-month period with the second worst quarter since the start of 2020

Novacap closes $1bn digital infra fund, Canada

Canadian private equity firm Novacap has raised a total of $1 billion at the final close of its first digital infrastructure fund

Blue Owl data centre JV secures $2.3bn for TX project

Blue Owl, Crusoe Energy System, and Primary Digital Infrastructure have secured a $2.3 billion loan from JP Morgan for a 206MW build-to-suit data centre in Abilene, Texas

Goldman boards private wealth infra train

Goldman Sachs has launched an open-ended infrastructure fund for wealthy individual clients to bolster its fundraising efforts

Gandhi joins Deloitte, London

Udit Gandhi has left Ernst & Young after 14 years and will join Deloitte's due diligence team in London as a partner

APL ropes in partner for Japan DC

Asia Pacific Land Group and Global Compute Infrastructure, a data infrastructure investment firm led by industry veterans, have launched a JV to develop a new data centre hub in Kyushu, Japan

Macquarie Capital invests in Brazilian fibre platform

Macquarie Capital has made an investment of R$ 300 million in Brasil TecPar, a leading internet service provider in the country

Tritax plans Heathrow data centre, UK

Tritax Big Box has acquired a £70 million land parcel within the Slough Availability Zone at Heathrow for the development of a 147MW data centre

PIH closes Kazakh telecom acquisition

Power International Holding has completed the acquisition of 100% participatory interest in Kazakhstan’s Mobile Telecom-Service

USTDA, AfDB extend African infra partnership

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency and African Development Bank have renewed their 2018 MoU, extending their partnership for 5-years to support infrastructure development across Africa

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