Infrastructure asset-backed securities transactions are seen picking up in Asia on the back of growing financing needs and diversification of funding sources

Bitcoin infrastructure company CleanSpark is acquiring 7 data centre sites in Tennessee from Exponential Digital for a total cash payment of $27.5 million

Vodafone Spain and Telefonica have signed a confidential, non-binding term sheet for a fibre wholesale agreement that will replace a deal due to expire at the end of the year

Lazard Asset Management has launched a listed private markets fund for retail and institutional investors across alternative asset classes

Scala Data Centers has signed a letter of intent to develop the largest digital infrastructure project in Latin America – with an initial investment of $500 million

Serverfarm, a data centre operator backed by Manulife Investment Management, has acquired 2 data centre campuses in Houston, Texas

Brazilian development bank BNDES has launched a credit line to develop data centres across the country

Dallas-based Applied Digital has raised $160 million in private placement financing from chip giant Nvidia, real estate firm Related Companies, and a group of institutional and accredited investors

Ardian is in the process of forming its ninth infrastructure secondaries fund, according to registration documents filed in multiple jurisdictions

Xavier Niel’s NJJ Holding has led a consortium of investors to complete the acquisitions of Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell, 2 of Ukraine’s leading telcos

Amazon Web Services will invest £8 billion into UK data centre development over the next 5 years

Alberta-based Network Innovations has acquired satellite services company Infosat Communications from Telesat

The City of Williston, Florida has issued an RFQ seeking a private partner to DBF a fibre-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed broadband services

US data centre developer Modularity and its Icelandic counterpart Borealis have teamed up to develop a data centre campus and subsea cable in Iceland

Energy Impact Partners has raised just over $1 billion for its third flagship fund, according to SEC filings yesterday