Ascenty secures $170 million funding for Chilean operations
Brazilian data centre company Ascenty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield in Latin America, has secured an investment of $170 million in a recent financing round. This financial boost will be dedicated to supporting and enhancing Ascenty's operations in Chile. The transaction,...
October 18
Stonepeak-backed firm kicks off LATAM data centre expansion
Digital infrastructure provider Cirion has begun construction of a 20-megawatt carrier-neutral data centre facility in Santiago, Chile. The group, backed by alternative investment firm Stonepeak, said the enterprise-targeted facility dubbed SAN2 is expected to be completed by early 2025 and will be built on 23,000 square meters of land in the industrial district of Quilicur...
August 09
Scala Data Centers opens Chilean data centre part of $400m national expansion
DigitalBridge-backed Latin American operator Scala Data Centers has launched its US$65 million data centre in Chile. The facility, named SSCLCR01, is located in Curauma, Valparaíso region, and offers at an initial phase 5MW of IT capacity. According to the group, the site is 100% booked to one hyperscale customer. No names were mentioned. The campus is designed to re...
August 07
KKR increases fibre share in LATAM with new stake acquisition
KKR, Telefónica Hispanoamérica, and Entel have entered into an agreement which will see KKR acquire a majority interest in PangeaCo and the existing fibre optic networks of Telefónica del Perú and Entel Perú to build Perú’s first nationwide open access wholesale fibre optics company. KKR is making the investment through its KKR Global Infrastructure Investors III fu...
July 27
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