Telus invests C$70bn for Canada’s digital growth

Telus has invested more than C$70 billion to accelerate the digital growth of Canada. The investment will be used over the next 5 years and will include support for wireless coverage in rural areas, AI data factories and other digital projects

Ripple Fiber secures $350m credit facility, US

North Carolina-based Ripple Fiber has secured a significant expansion of its existing credit facility to $350 million, which is led and arranged by Post Road Group

Asian Development Bank reaches financing milestone

The Asian Development Bank committed to 58 private sector transactions in 2024, securing $2.6 billion of financing

Summit Ridge, Digital Realty ink solar deal for data cent...

Digital Realty has agreed to purchase solar energy from Summit Ridge to power its data centers in Illinois

Oklahoma TRS releases infra fund mandate

The Teachers’ Retirement System of Oklahoma has invited bidders for an infrastructure or real assets investment mandate for the calendar years 2025/2026

Conapto issues bonds for digital infra growth, Sweden

Conapto has issued senior secured bonds worth SEK 500 million to accelerate the growth of digital infrastructure in Sweden and across Nordic countries

Holdco debt launch for data centres portfolio, US

A $300 million financing launched today for a portfolio of 3 hyperscale data centres in Maryland owned by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners' subsidiary Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Blue Owl commits $5bn to mega TX data centre

Alternative asset manager Blue Owl has committed $5 billion in equity from multiple real assets funds to an Abilene, Texas data centre project, IJGlobal can reveal

Cordiant partner steps down, UK

Cordiant Capital's Benn Mikula has stepped down from his role as co-managing partner of the investment manager

Hutchison makes bid to take full ownership of Oz unit

Hutchison Telecommunications will launch a takeover bid for all the ordinary shares it doesn't already own in its Australia unit, at a cash price of A$0.032 per share

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Bpifrance and partners to create AI campus, France

Public investment bank Bpifrance, AI platform MGX, Mistral AI and NVIDIA are set to develop an AI campus in France

UPDATE: Royal London to acquire Dalmore Capital, UK

Royal London has entered into an agreement to acquire UK-based infrastructure asset manager Dalmore Capital and its asset servicing arm Resolis

Soluna launches solar-powered data center, US

Soluna has launched Project Annie, a 75MW data center that is powered by a co-located 114MW solar farm in northeast Texas

Nest to launch infrastructure debt fund with IFM, UK

UK-based pension scheme Nest has committed €530 million to seed a new infrastructure debt fund, a first major move since it acquired a stake in the Australian investment manager IFM Investors