DTCP becomes majority shareholder in Central European data centre operator
Funds advised by investment management firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) have become the majority shareholder in maincubes, a Frankfurt-based data centre operator, following a fresh cash injection into the German business. The stake was acquired from co-shareholder Art-Invest R...
September 20
Principal Asset Management invests in 42MW Amsterdam data centre
Principal Asset Management, through its dedicated real estate investment team, has acquired the third data centre for the Principal European Data Centre Fund I (the Fund). The Fund has completed the acquisition of a 24,755 sq m logistics facility in the Schiphol area of Amsterdam. The building has simultaneously been leased to Switch Data Centers who will convert it into...
September 15
CVC to become $177bn mammoth as it snaps up DIF Capital Partners
Infrastructure investment platform CVC has acquired infrastructure manager DIF Capital Partners as it bulks up on digital infrastructure assets. The transaction will see CVC take over a majority stake in the manager with the remaining stock to be acquired over time. DIF, which will continue to operate under the DIF brand and be led by its current CEO Wim Blaasse an...
September 13
OVHcloud eyes edge computing acquisition to speed up continental rollout
European cloud operator OVHcloud is in exclusive negotiations for the full acquisition of German hyperconverged infrastructure software provider gridscale. gridscale offers a range of multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS products and services. The company's main presence is in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Michel Paulin, CEO of OVHcloud, said: "We are impr...
August 07
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