The Australian arm of EY has poached 5 modelers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, expanding its digital twin practice

South Africa-based renewables firm SolarAfrica has signed with US data centre developer Vantage DC a 20-year PPA to supply solar energy to the latter’s $1 billion, 80MW Johannesburg data centre campus

Listed infrastructure investment vehicle Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has signed a €200 million Eurobond facility

Singaporean telco ST Telemedia has partnered with South Korea-based Samsung for a second data centre in the southwest of Seoul

Allard Nooy is stepping down as CEO at InfraCo Asia by the end of the month, while chief operating officer Claudine Lim will serve as interim CEO

The UK Infrastructure Bank has appointed the 5 founding members of its new permanent executive team, all of whom will be based at its headquarters in Leeds

NEXI and the ATI have provided investment risk insurance cover for the GPE consortium’s $200 million telecoms project in Ethiopia

The board of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $500 million allocation to the latest vintage of Brookfield’s flagship infrastructure strategy

The joint venture of Orsted and Andean Telecom Partners have today executed an MoU with Nordic fibre network operator GlobalConnect to explore the options for a digital hub on Denmark’s planned 10GW Green Energy Island

Plenary Group’s Julie-Anne Mizzi has today been appointed to the board of infra policy think tank Infrastructure Partnerships Australia

Hong Kong-based power developer CLP is partnering with Asia-focused real asset manager ESR Group for sustainable data centres and logistics centres in South China

Italy’s Green Arrow Capital has signed a partnership agreement with Société Générale to promote the Green Arrow Infrastructure of the Future fund to a select group of institutional investors

Mid-market direct investor Fiera Infrastructure and an affiliate of Fiera Capital Corporation has agreed to provide growth capital to Inalan, a Greek fibre-to-the-home internet service provider

San Luis Obispo County Pension Trust has made a $30 million commitment to the Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners fund

UK-based telecom operator CityFibre has raised £4.9 billion in debt to fund its planned rollout of FTTH connection to nearly 8 million homes in the UK – progressing the Project Gigabit initiative