France's FTTH mega-project reaches FC

Bouygues Telecom and Vauban Infrastructure Partners today reached financial close on a fully-underwritten digital infra deal in France – SDFAST FTTH

D9 acquires Finnish data centre stake

Triple Point Investment Management's digital infra vehicle Digital 9 Infrastructure has acquired an 86% interest in Ficolo, a Finnish data centre owner-operator, from Taaleri and Pontos

Lightning Fibre makes board appointments

Lightning Fibre – the digital infrastructure group set up by UK-based investment manager Foresight Group – today made 2 new appointments to its board as the company progresses with planned expansion

Macquarie’s Wong crops up at Stonepeak

The former co-head of Macquarie Capital, Daniel Wong, has today been announced as the new head of Europe at New York headquartered infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak

Thor enters digital infra with acquisition, Spain

New York headquartered real estate developer Thor Equities is planning its first move into the digital infrastructure sector with the acquisition of rights to a data centre development in Spain

Ardian closes largest infra secondaries fund at $5.25bn

Ardian has raised $5.25 billion for its latest infrastructure secondaries fund – Ardian Secondary Fund VIII Infrastructure

Cellnex acquires additional Portuguese telecoms assets

Cellnex Telecom has acquired an additional portfolio of 350 sites – towers and rooftops – from Portuguese mobile operator NOS, valued at €155 million

Trio completes Oi mobile acquisition

A trio of international telcos have jointly completed their acquisition of Oi’s mobile assets, splitting up Brazil’s fourth-largest mobile provider

Blackstone raises $2.5bn for infra in Q1

Blackstone Infrastructure Partners brought in $2.5 billion in commitments across Q1, according to its most recent earnings report

IFM to buy equity stake in FTTH junior

IFM Investors is reportedly close to finalising a deal to buy an equity stake in fibre and wireless network infrastructure developer Render Networks

YTL to build Malaysia 500MW data centre park

Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate YTL plans to develop a 500MW data centre campus in southern Malaysia, powered by solar energy

Ambitious QLD data centre/battery storage project in works

Australian specialist investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has quietly laid foundations for a sizable data centre and battery development in Queensland with plans to start preliminary construction works this year

IJInvestor Funds & Investors Report – Q1 2022

If the stellar performance in infrastructure fundraising in Q1 2022 continues for the remainder of the year, we can expect another record-breaking 12 months of infrastructure fundraising

KAB expanding into telco infra

The Malaysian electrical and mechanical engineering services provider is entering the telco infrastructure sector by forming a joint venture with a telco service provider