ICG Infra and Spanish telecoms investor Teras have launched Templus, a data centre platform focused on southern Europe

The Italian government has approved Swisscom’s €8 billion acquisition of Vodafone Italy, keeping the transaction on track with its timeline for closing

Soluna Holdings, a green data centre developer, has closed a $30 million financing from Spring Lane Capital for its 50MW project Dorothy 2, which is co-located with a 150MW wind farm, in Texas

British International Investment yesterday agreed to finance the construction of new telecom sites in rural Tanzania

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has hired Vieri Betti Guaraldi as a managing director in its European capital markets group, based in Milan

PAIX Data Centres is expanding the capacity of its operations in Ghana to 1.2MW to boost Africa’s digital economy

Antwerp-based investment firm WorxInvest has finalised the acquisition of a 28.73% stake in Brussels-listed Gimv from Flemish Participation Company for around €375 million

The African Development Bank will fund the construction of a 3-story data centre in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, as part of its Central Africa Fibre-Optic Backbone Project

Cloud computing company CoreWeave has secured a $7.5 billion debt financing facility led by funds managed by Blackstone, with strategic participation from Magnetar and Coatue

Global Data Centre Group has agreed to sell its stake in Etix Everywhere, its European data centre platform, to Infranity for €108 million

Infrastructure asset manager Keppel has confirmed leadership changes with Manjot Singh Mann becoming its chief executive of connectivity, replacing Thomas Pang

Banglalink, VEON’s digital operator in Bangladesh, has signed an MoU with Robi, a subsidiary of Axiata Group and Bangladesh’s 2nd largest mobile operator, to explore network sharing possibilities and expand the country’s 4G network

CIMIC Group has been awarded a contract for the reconstruction of Choa Chu Kang waterworks in Singapore worth approximately $107 million

InfraRed Capital Partners has received non-binding offers for its stake in the German telco Deutsche GigaNetz

The Investment Advisory Council of the Minnesota State Board of Investment has recommended the fund invests to a KKR infra vehicle