Openreach hits milestone in major UK fibre roll-out

British telecoms company Openreach has provided more than 800,000 Scottish homes and business with full fibre access as part of its countrywide roll-out of ultrafast fibre broadband

Samsung Electronics to build South Korea chip factory

Samsung Electronics will invest $230 billion in over the next 20 years to build the world’s largest chip factory

AirTrunk funds DC expansion with 7-year yen loan

Australian data center operator AirTrunk has taken an around $432 million-equivalent yen-denominated 7-year sustainability-linked loan to fund the expansion of one of its existing facilities in Japan, IJGlobal has learnt

Digital Edge partners for Tokyo data centre

Digital Edge Holdings has entered a partnership with real estate developer Hulic to develop a carrier-neutral data centre facility in downtown Tokyo, Japan

Pepperl+Fuchs commissions Vietnam factory

Pepperl+Fuchs last week commissioned a sustainable manufacturing facility in Vietnam

CityFibre launches UK fibre roll-out

The UK’s largest independent fibre network CityFibre has broken ground on its latest £10 million fibre network roll-out in Newark, England

AirTrunk funds Japan DC expansion with sustainable loan

Australian data centre operator AirTrunk has raised roughly $432million through a sustainability-linked loan to expand its existing data centre in Japan and linked 100% of its debt funding platforms to sustainability commitments

BNPPAM names head of real assets

BNP Paribas Asset Management has named Karen Azoulay as head of asset management, a post she took up this month

Planning approval for major UK data centre

Camro data campus, Cambridge, has been granted full planning permission by Cambridgeshire County Council

iCON hires head of debt finance

iCON Infrastructure has hired Simon Casey as head of infrastructure debt finance based out of London

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Europe & Africa winners

The great and the good of the regional infrastructure finance community gathered last night in the Sheraton Grand London in Park Lane to celebrate IJGlobal Awards 2022 for Europe and Africa

CalPERS backs GIP coinvestment with $200m

California Public Employees Retirement System has made a $198.5 million allocation to an infrastructure co-investment vehicle offered by Global Infrastructure Partners, meeting documents show

Investec execs launch infra origination venture

Michael Panetlogianis and Ralph Cho recently left Investec to found an Apollo Global Management-backed infrastructure venture, Apterra Infrastructure Capital