Why data is the ‘oil’ of modern M&A
Merger and acquisitions (M&A) are big in tech and have been so in the digital infrastructure space. So much so that the market often says there is way more...
Latest News & Editorial
DigitalBridge, IFM buy Switch, Inc in mega $11bn deal
Digital Infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG) is to acquire Nevada-based exascale data centre operator Switch, Inc. (NYSE: SWCH) in a deal valued at US$11 billion. This is the second largest data centre acquisition to date, only behind KKR and Global Infrastructure Partner’s US$15 billion acquisition of CyrusOne in 2021. Under the definitive agreement, DigitalBrid...
What is a data centre? UK operator launches interactive tool to teach children as young as 7 about the importance of digital infrastructure
3 Mins|May 12, 2022
Nasdaq-listed crypto miner acquires Kyrgyzstan data centre
2 Mins|May 12, 2022
BDx announces entry into Indonesia via $300m JV
APAC data centre operator Big Data Exchange (BDx) has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement of shares (CSPA) and joint venture agreement, together with a series of commercial and operational agreements, with PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredo...
MAM buys $610m stake in Southeast Asian digital infrastructure platform
3 Mins|May 12, 2022
Valterra Partners’ ColoHouse doubles down on New York data centre footprint
2 Mins|May 12, 2022
European Commission and EIB sign $28bn bill targeted at digital infrastructure, energy
3 Mins|May 11, 2022
60 Seconds
Nominees announced for The Tech Capital Awards 2022
00H48 May 11, 2022
Take part in The Tech Capital 2022 Global Data Center Investor Survey
13H09 April 27, 2022
Opinion
Automatically refresh this page
Save Energy, Go Dark
Quote of the day
" By moving to the cloud, we create new opportunities to accelerate the transformation to a more sustainable future – together. "
Hélène Barnekow, General Manager, Microsoft Sweden
Industry Views, M&A and Latest
Ep. 4 - Exploring every single opportunity to succeed with Peter Hannaford - Great Business Minds
Our guest this week is a data centre legend and he is the man responsible for matching talent with the right job, setting the foundations for hundreds of data centre businesses to succeed. Pet...
Ep. 3 – Embracing digital change with Bill Barney – Great Business Minds
Ep. 2 – Going the extra mile with Michael Tobin – Great Business Minds
Charts by TradingView
Podcast
Ep. 8 – ‘Failure is not the end,' says Josh Joshi – Great Business Minds
Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. Our guest this week has a strong capital market background as we...
{{display.playback}} / {{display.duration}}
The Tech Capital Social Media
Feeding your feed with truth
Newsbeat
Equinix targets LATAM’s $8.5bn edge segment with data centre acquisitions
The world largest data centre real estate investment trust (REIT) Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) said it is expanding into Chile and Peru through the acquisition of four data centres from Empresa Nacional De Telecomunicaciones S.A. ("Entel"), a Chilean telecommunications provider. In total, the American operator is investing US$705 million with the transaction expected to close in Q2 of 2022, su...
4 Mins|March 21, 2022
2 Mins|March 21, 2022
Philippines’ largest data centre breaks ground
3 Mins|March 21, 2022
Blackstone’s QTS grabs 350MW of renewables to power Atlanta data centres
AWS to spend $2.4bn building UK data centres
The world’s largest public cloud operator said it will invest £1.8 billion (US$2.4 billion) in the next two years bu...
EQT scoops up Baring Private Equity Asia in $7.5bn merger deal
Stockholm-based asset manager EQT (EQTAB.ST) has reached an agreement to acquire Asian PE rival Baring Private Equity A...
CapitaLand names CEO tasked with $1.5bn India data centre expansion
Asia real estate group CapitaLand has appointed Gauri Shankar Nagabhushanam as its new chief executive officer, India B...
Frontier Markets
Nasdaq-listed crypto miner acquires Kyrgyzstan data centre
2 Mins|May 12, 2022
Equiano subsea cable lands in Nigeria
4 Mins|April 25, 2022
Equinix commits to outdoing Amsterdam data centre investment in Lagos
4 Mins|April 11, 2022
Emerging Markets
BDx announces entry into Indonesia via $300m JV
3 Mins|May 12, 2022
Transatlantic operators team up in boost to Southern and West African connectivity markets
3 Mins|May 11, 2022
SpaceDC, Aofei form China megascale data centre partnership
2 Mins|May 11, 2022
Developing Markets
MAM buys $610m stake in Southeast Asian digital infrastructure platform
3 Mins|May 12, 2022
PAG’s FLOW Digital Infrastructure and AyalaLand form data centre JV
3 Mins|May 11, 2022
Transatlantic operators team up in boost to Southern and West African connectivity markets
3 Mins|May 11, 2022
Mature Markets
Valterra Partners' ColoHouse doubles down on New York data centre footprint
2 Mins|May 12, 2022
What is a data centre? UK operator launches interactive tool to teach children as young as 7 about the importance of digital infrastructure
3 Mins|May 12, 2022
Switch's revenue grows 26% as DigitalBridge, Brookfield race to buy $7bn mega operator
6 Mins|May 11, 2022
Analysis & Opinion
M&A, growth, opportunity: What’s next for Vantage Data Centers explained by president Boniface
Back in 2011, Antoine Boniface and his business partner Charles-Antoine Beyney launched a data centre startup. The business grew considerably over th...
11 Mins|January 19, 2022
‘The bar for M&A is much higher compared to organic development,’ says DataBank CEO
Raul Martynek joined colocation and edge IT infrastructure operator DataBank in June of 2017 as Chief Executive Officer. In this role, he provides ov...
8 Mins|January 18, 2022
Perspectives on Sustainability: Time to roll up our sleeves and get to work
World leaders recently met in Glasgow for the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP26) with a goal of agreeing on solutions to the inargua...
13 Mins|December 02, 2021
Predictions for 2022: Digitising the design and build of data centres
Data centres have become the very heart of the digital economy, and critical to our ever more digit...
PREMIUM
Why data is the ‘oil’ of modern M&A
Merger and acquisitions (M&A) are big in tech and have been so in the digital infrastructure space. So much so that the market often says there is way more vast amounts of capital for purchases t...
Reports and Whitepapers
Videos
Will the largest market players kill the boutique data centre in Africa?
March 03, 2022 | 1:00 AM GMT
The 2020s will remain in the digital infrastructure history books as the decade of the southern globe with Africa assuming a key global role. Jasper Lankhorst, Chief Executive Officer for Actis-Convergence Partners, pan-African data centre platform, joins The Tech Capital at PTC'22 in Honolulu, Hawai, to discuss the current state of the market on the continent home to 1.4 billion, of which half are yet to be brought online. He talks of a â...
'We have to think differently,' urges Infrastructure Masons chairman Dean Nelson
February 24, 2022 | 2:28 AM GMT
Exclusive: ‘A year of action.’ – Yondr signs deals to expand in Brazil, Africa, Western Europe and South Asia
February 15, 2022 | 1:19 AM GMT
'Reputation matters a lot', says data centre chief executive Andrew Schaap
February 09, 2022 | 12:11 PM GMT
Involta President talks being acquired by The Carlyle Group and says it's 'time to sprint' on expansion
February 02, 2022 | 4:47 PM GMT
News By Region
PREMIUM
Fact Checker
An original series from The Tech Capital's team.In a busy, 24-hour news cycle, it's hard to spot the truth behind the rhetoric. We're doing it for you.
Fact Checker: Is London going to impose a moratorium on data centres?
The Story A LinkedIn post has this week caught the UK data centre community by surprise raising ...
Did a bad data centre software update bring down CNN, the New York Times, the BBC, Spotify, Amazon, Google and others?
The Story At 11am BST on June 8, 2021, a large number of websites and apps across the world were...
What is The Tech Capital’s Fact Checker?
The Tech Capital’s Fact Checker is a project that seeks to shine a light on stories that are caus...
Photo Galleries
‘A pipeline of young talent’: London’s home to world's first data centre college aimed at 14-19-year-olds – with pictures
11 Mins|November 18, 2021
London has become home to the first digital infrastructure teaching hub where children as young as 14 can learn, practice, and gain official educational recognition for their studies in the field. The new curriculum, named Digital Futures Programme, has been unveiled by the University Technical ...
Grace Hopper subsea cable lands in the UK – in pictures
5 Mins|September 20, 2021
Ireland's data centre sector unites to save the nation's flora and fauna - in pictures
7 Mins|June 17, 2021
Listings
Most Read & Watched