Blackstone’s Project Circuit – data centre financing – wins the IJGlobal ESG Digital Infrastructure Award for being, according to one judge, “technologically advanced” with business practices “underpinned by strong ESG commitments”

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of Ireland's Speed Fibre from the Irish Infrastructure Fund for an equity consideration of €97.2 million

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has reaffirmed support to Africa Data Centres which plans to build a 30MW data centre in Ghana

The second issue of the UK’s National Infrastructure Assessment has been published today… and it makes for fairly mundane reading for an infra specialist, until you hit the big numbers

IJGlobal has published its league tables for international infrastructure and energy finance reflecting activity in the third quarter of 2023, which compares poorly to recent performance – leading to a slump year of activity. The final quarter tends to be the most active, but it is unlikely performance will turn 2023 into anything but a slow year for deal activity and capital deployed

The Welsh government has awarded alternative network Ogi a concession to develop a digital superhighway along the M4 and trunk network

Hyperscale data centre firm AirTrunk today announced its expansion in Japan with its first development in Osaka

South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has partnered with Vietnam’s state-owned PetroVietnam to explore subsea cable business opportunities in Southeast Asia

Argentina’s national communications agency has set a date for a 5G broadband auction – estimated to raise over $1 billion

Thailand’s government has approved investment promotion applications worth $1.1 billion in projects including electric vehicles manufacturing, renewable energy, data centre, and tourism

Georgia Department of Transportation is soliciting market feedback for the statewide broadband network operations, maintenance and commercialisation project

The UK's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has begun the examination of the merger of Vodafone and Three UK's telecoms businesses

Norwegian data centre developer Green Mountain has submitted a planning application to Time Municipality for a $4.5 billion data centre facility in Kalberg, Southwest Norway

DIF Capital Partners, the Dutch infrastructure fund manager, has promoted both Kanan Joshi and Caine Bouwmeester from managing director to partner