Akin has hired Ron Erlichman and Nick Atwood as partners in its market-leading energy and infrastructure practice in New York and Washington, DC offices, respectively

West Yorkshire Pension Fund has committed £50 million to L&G Digital Infrastructure Fund to support UK and European digital infrastructure investment

Meta, SoftBank, IPS, TM, XLSmart and NEC have formed a partnership to build the Candle submarine cable system connecting Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

Infranity has launched an open-ended evergreen infrastructure ELTIF aimed at private wealth investors

British investment trust Pantheon Infrastructure has committed to invest around £30 million in energy and data centre developer Intersect Power, through a vehicle managed by Climate Adaptive Infrastructure, a US-based infrastructure investor with over $1.3 billion in AUM

Primary Digital Infrastructure has hired Jeff Barone as managing director and head of capital markets

The NSW government has received a SEARS application from Plan Project Management for the construction and operation of the Mamre Road data centre campus

New Era Energy & Digital and Sharon AI – through its JV company Texas Critical Data Centers – have inked an MoU with GlobeLink to develop 1,600-mile fiber optic network in Texas

Private equity firm EQT has agreed to sell its remaining stake in Telus Digital to the latter’s parent company for $215 million, marking its exit from the business

Nasdaq-listed Gorilla Technology Group signed a $1.4 billion 3-year contract with Singapore-based infrastructure platform Freyr Technology to develop a network of AI-powered data centres across Southeast Asia