Microsoft has announced a €4 billion investment into France’s data centre sector following the signing of its first PPA in the country this month

AirTrunk, the hyperscale data centre specialist, has opened its second data centre in Tokyo

The International Finance Corporation is planning an investment of up to $50 million into a Patria Investments infrastructure fund

EXA Infrastructure has partnered with HGC Global Communications, an ICT service provider and network operator, to enable connectivity to EXA’s fibre infrastructure network

KKR’s open-ended core infrastructure fund has raised around $9.8 billion to date, according to SEC filings

The UK government has cleared the merger of Vodafone and Three’s UK business, subject to several conditions

Italian export credit agency Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero has opened 2 offices in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Singapore to capture growth opportunities for Italian companies in Southeast Asia

BlackRock has appointed Will Thomson as managing director, a portfolio manager in the climate infrastructure team in New Zealand, launching its franchise in the country

Spanish developer Solarpack has signed 2 environmental attribute purchase agreements with Meta from its 210MW solar portfolio in Indiana

Puerto Rico-based QMC Telecom has secured a $115 million financing package to boost its digital infrastructure investments across Latin America

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation will focus future investments on the green transition and emerging tech

The Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana has approved $65 million in infra fund commitments

London-listed Digital 9 Infrastructure has appointed advisers and begun investor outreach for the sale of 3 of its wholly owned assets, as part of the fund’s managed wind-down process

Zayo Group, the global network infrastructure provider, has made plans to carve out 2 independent entities focused on its European business and its interests outside of Europe and North America

Data Centres currently account for up to 3% of global electricity consumption, with projections suggesting this could increase to 4% by 2030 due to ever-increasing demand for cloud services