Hong Kong-headquartered Big Data Exchange has partnered with 2 Singaporean entities to explore the feasibility of developing sustainable ocean data centres

A limited partner expects soon to commit financing to an infrastructure fund, managed by a Korean growth capital firm

Cumulus Growth, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Talen Energy, has secured up to $175 million in investment from Orion Energy Partners

Africa-focused power developer CrossBoundary Energy has agreed with Zoodlabs to develop a $2 million, 1.2MW solar plus storage project which will supply power to an undersea fibre optic facility in Sierra Leone

AMP Capital’s infrastructure equity business has ventured into the nascent market of aggregating mobile telecoms site leases

Allen & Overy has hired Dario de Martino as a partner in its M&A practice in New York

Proximity Data Centres, the UK edge colocation data centre provider, has added a new site based in Swindon to its portfolio

Cube Infrastructure Managers has reached a €1 billion first close for its third flagship fund

Project finance advisory firm Operis Group and Singapore-based Apta Ventures agreed to work together on advising clients procuring financing for energy and infrastructure projects in Asia

USTDA has signed a grant to South African ISP Jenny Internet to fund a feasibility study into expanding low-cost internet across the Southern African region

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance has issued the RFP documents for the partial privatisation of Ethio Telecom

DWS-owned NorthC Group Deutschland has acquired IP Exchange for an enterprise value of €44 million

Indonesia-based conglomerate Salim Group is seeking up to $500 million in loans to finance the development and operation of data centres at its industrial park

The French government plans to provide a $190 million loan to the government of Indonesia to develop a national data centre, including pre-development activities

The multilateral named Hüseyin Özhan as the new director for Kazakhstan