Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, has secured $975 million in construction financing for the first phase of its hyperscale data centre campus in Maryland

PowerHouse Data Centers and Poe Companies are planning the development of a 400MW data centre campus in Louisville, Kentucky

Stonepeak’s acquisition of Boundary Street Capital, a private credit manager focusing on digital infrastructure and technology, has closed

ESR Group and CloudHQ have entered into a JV for the former's $2 billion Cosmosquare Data Centre campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan

Aligned Data Centres has completed a $12 billion debt and equity fundraising round to support its platform expansion, with Macquarie leading the equity component

Africa Finance Corporation has priced a $500 million perpetual hybrid bond, marking the DFI’s debut hybrid bond issuance

DFI-backed lender Climate Investment Funds has issued a debut $500 million climate finance bond to attract private sector investment to its clean energy financing programmes

Edged Energy and Merlin Properties will work with Extremadura regional government to develop 2 large-scale data centre campuses in Spain

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has awarded funding to Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy for a telecom infrastructure feasibility study

Stack Infrastructure is developing a 220MW data centre in Johor Bahru, marking its entry into the Malaysian market

Power Sustainable has closed a C$85 million financing for Canadian Fiber Optics Corporation, a fibre optics company based in Calgary, to support the build-out of broadband internet in rural western Canada

Asset manager Stonepeak has hired Eanna Murphy as an operating partner to support its activity in data centres and digital infrastructure, effective immediately

Vodacom and Orange have partnered to BOO solar-powered mobile base stations in underserved areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Patrizia is to acquire Operadora Iberica de Redes y Servicios, the Spanish fibre-to-the-home network owner and broadband and mobile operator