Green light for Equinix UK data centre

Slough Borough Council planning officers have unanimously approved plans for an upcoming data centre from US-based data centre provider Equinix

Vodafone appoints CEO

Vodafone Group has appointed Margherita della Valle as chief executive officer

UPDATED: Empyrion achieves FC for Gangnam data center

Empyrion DC, a Seraya Partners portfolio company, has reached financial close for its new data center in Gangnam, South Korea, with financing provided by 3 Korean lenders

Keppel’s Bifrost Cable financing update

Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp’s debt financing is under way for a transpacific undersea cable system – which will connect the west coast of North America with Indonesia and Singapore

Microsoft unveils €1bn Polish data centre valley

Microsoft has opened its first data centre region in Central and Eastern Europe located on several sites around the Warsaw, Poland, area

Vauban appoints 7 European partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners has promoted 7 individuals to partner in a bid “to build & develop a diverse, multicultural, and talented team”

EIB backs data centre expansion

The European Investment Bank will back Swedish data centre firm Atea with a €50 million loan to fund R&D and capital investments in the Nordics and Baltics

Windstream invests in broadband for Georgia county

Windstream has partnered with Union County in Georgia to provide high-speed broadband internet access to the region through its Kinetic fibre network

IJGlobal MENA Awards – the results

The IJGlobal Awards for the MENA region were hosted last night in Dubai, celebrating transactions that closed over the course of the 2022 calendar year and the companies that drove them on to a successful conclusion

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – the global winners

Now that all the IJGlobal Awards nights have all been staged, the time has come to identify winners in the global category – the most coveted awards presented by this publication, all of them chosen by the independent panels of judges

Norlys picks up Danish telecoms assets

Integrated telecom and energy group Norlys is set to acquire the Danish operations and network assets of Telia Company for an expected DKK6.25 billion on a cash and debt-free basis

Basalt fund secures SCRS commitment

South Carolina Retirement System has backed the latest fund from Basalt Infrastructure Partners with a $75 million commitment

Border to Coast launches commitment package

UK pension group Border to Coast has launched the second stage of its private markets programme with £2.3 billion fund commitments from its Local Government Pension Scheme