Pillsbury appoints energy practice partner, US

International law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has appointed Stephen Humes as a partner in the energy practice

Essential Utilities to invest in data centre, Pennsylvania

Essential Utilities has entered into an agreement with International Electric Power III to invest $26 million to develop a 1,400-acre data centre in Greene County, Pennsylvania

Poa Internet closes on Finnfund funding, Kenya

Poa Internet has closed a $4 million investment from Finnfund to expand its network and enhance internet accessibility in Kenya

Digital Alpha raises $365m for fund III

Digital Alpha Advisors has raised $365 million towards its $1.5 billion target for its third digital infrastructure fund

X-energy, Amazon partner for nuclear-powered data centres

X-energy Reactor Company has entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of Xe-100 fourth generation advanced small modular reactors and TRISO-X fuel in the US

Chindata invests in AI data centre cluster, China

Chindata Group has signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Zhongwei Municipal Government in Ningxia Province to develop a major hyperscale AI data centre hub under China’s national East Data, West Computing initiative

SK Ecoplant to sell subsidiaries to KKR, South Korea

SK Ecoplant has signed a share purchase agreement with KKR to sell 100% of the shares of 3 environmental subsidiaries for around W1.78 trillion

Blue Owl in $4bn data centre close, US

Blue Owl Capital, Chirisa Technology Parks and Machine Investment Group have closed a JV partnership to back a data centre campus project in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with $4 billion in funding

Gamuda, Gentari ink solar, BESS in Malaysia

Infrastructure company Gamuda and Petronas-owned clean energy firm Gentari will develop 1.5GW hybrid power plants to address growing capacity demand from Malaysia’s hyperscale data centres

AirTrunk closes APJ financing

AirTrunk has closed a $10.43 billion refinancing, the largest sustainability-linked financing in the Asia Pacific and Japan region to date

Blackstone increases credit facility for Aligned Data Cen...

Blackstone has upsized its existing senior secured credit facility with Aligned Data Centers as the company expands its data center development portfolio

iCON closes seventh fund

London-based investment group iCON Infrastructure has reached final close on its seventh fund, iCON Infrastructure Partners VII

Entergy secures LPSC approval for Meta data center

The Louisiana Public Service Commission has approved a landmark agreement allowing Entergy Louisiana to move forward with major infrastructure investments for Meta's data center in Richland Parish