Nuveen Green Capital has closed a $40 million C-PACE deal, arranged by Lone Star PACE, to fund the development of data centers in Houston, highlighting the city's growing focus on sustainable infrastructure. #SustainableInfrastructure #PERECredit #funds #commercialrealestateestate https://okt.to/JIMwzy
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Private Equity’s Deal Engines Roar Back: Buyout and infrastructure firms see artificial intelligence driving demand for data-center investing. Private equity’s dealmaking machinery upshifted in recent months, easing fundraising strains and paving the way for an accelerated pace over this year’s second half. With the market getting back in gear, private-equity firms are taking on billion-dollar investments in data centers—the warehouse-size buildings that house racks stuffed with computer servers used to crunch and transmit streams of information—and related projects to capitalize on a cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence boom that is boosting expectations for productivity gains. “AI is widely acknowledged as having the potential to be one of the greatest drivers of transformation in a generation,” Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone’s chairman and chief executive, said on an earnings call last month. As he has before, he likened the potential impact of generative AI to the epochal effects of the invention of electric lights. Blackstone invested nearly $34 billion in the three months through June, the most for any quarter in two years, with $19 billion more committed to deals currently in the works, firm executives said. Blackstone’s second-quarter transactions included $4.5 billion of a $7.5 billion debt package for CoreWeave, an AI-focused cloud services provider and data-center operator, Schwarzman said. He described the financing as the largest in the firm’s history. Similarly, Ares Management invested some $26 billion in the just-ended period, putting the quarter in the top two for capital deployment by the firm, CEO Michael Arougheti said during an Aug. 2 earnings call. Ares has invested nearly $5 billion over the past five years combined in digital infrastructure, including data centers and fiber-optic networks, he said. While AI drives demand for data-center capacity, “what is increasingly important to underscore is that the bottleneck for AI development is, increasingly, access to power,” Connor Teskey, president of Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management, said on an earnings call Wednesday. He pointed to a recent deal with Microsoft that calls for Brookfield to invest more than $10 billion in renewable energy to support data centers as an example of this dynamic. “Renewable power, transmission and distributed generation are critical infrastructures that are currently insufficient but essential for supporting AI’s expansion,” Teskey said. Investors with deep pockets have flooded the sector in recent years. In 2022, for example, private equity accounted for roughly 91%, or $44 billion, of global data-center deals, according to Synergy Research Group. The pace of dealmaking in the sector has picked up after ebbing last year, according to John Dinsdale, chief analyst and managing director at Synergy. Capital Innovations, LLC #InfrastructureInvesting
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Preqin - Infrastructure secondaries primed for rapid growth as GPs enter market "Secondaries are nearly 8% of AUM in private equity and just 2% in infrastructure, so any bridging of that gap means huge growth. Additionally, secondaries are a derivative of their primary market, and primary infrastructure is one of the fastest growing alternative products, with AUM having doubled twice in the past decade. AUM within the asset class is forecast to grow from around $1.1tn at the end of 2022 to $1.7tn at the end of 2028. While it is unlikely that infrastructure secondaries will completely close the gap with private equity secondaries in four years, the data points to a potential market size of $158.0bn in 2028, nearly six times higher than the current AUM of $26.7bn. The attractions of infrastructure secondaries are much the same as for private equity secondaries: LPs can mitigate the J-curve and access positive returns sooner; build a portfolio that is diversified across managers and vintage years quicker; have greater visibility on the assets rather than commit to a blind pool; and can, in some instances, get shorter duration exposure than is typical in primary infrastructure." https://lnkd.in/eBc96pm3
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Brace for Robust Growth in Infrastructure Secondaries The infrastructure secondaries market could witness explosive growth over the next few years with assets under management (AUM) potentially witnessing a six-fold increase over the next five years, according to a new report. Secondaries are about 8% of AUM under private equity and barely 2% of infrastructure which means bridging that gap could result in massive growth with data from Preqin indicating that the potential market size could spike from $26.7 billion to $158 billion by 2028. Moreover, secondaries being a derivative of the primary market, will also feed off the fact that primary infrastructure is one of the fastest-growing alternative products where AUMs have doubled twice within the past decade. Preqin predicts that infrastructure as an asset class will grow from around $1.1 trillion by end-2022 to $1.7 trillion by end-2028.
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Meta plans to build $800 million, next-generation data center in Montgomery
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A ‘EUROPEAN DATA HUB’ IN NORTHUMBERLAND // “A really unique opportunity (and) offers a huge boost to the regeneration and renaissance of the area” US private equity firm Blackstone Group has agreed a deal to buy Britishvolt’s former base in Cambois in Northumberland. With plans to transform the 235-acre plot, which has stood idle since Britishvolt’s collapse last year, into a £10 billion `hyperscale data centre campus’, it has the potential to create thousands of jobs. Northumberland County Council’s cabinet is set to discuss the deal next week, and, if approved, the council would receive up to £110 million, which would be used to create a new investment fund for the county. Read more about this exciting news that promises to “kickstart an entire tech industry cluster in the North East” and offers a much brighter future for the site following a difficult period: https://lnkd.in/eugXBDZK Bob Maxwell #NET #northeasttimes #BlackstoneGroup #northumberland #northeastbusiness #jobcreation #investment #businessgrowth #datacentre #makingconnections #drivingconversations
Fresh jobs hope as Blackstone agrees data centre deal for former Britishvolt site - North East Times Magazine
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Digital infrastructure is central to the modern economy, and at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution. However, despite the long-term tailwinds, high interest rates and inflation in recent months, have depressed sentiment in the sector. Such has been the re-rating that, in a rare move, the usually very low-turnover VT Gravis Digital Infrastructure Income Fund, has made the most of the discounts available to add three new holdings to its portfolio. #DigitalInfrastructure
VT Gravis digital infrastructure income sources three new opportunities - IFA Magazine
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A recent Propmodo article, “Once Considered Niche Financing, C-PACE Is Being Embraced by the Mainstream,” provides an overview of #CPACE and describes the surge in demand for it as one of least expensive sources of capital to fund pre-, mid-, or post-construction deals. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/ge8nzZ5D
Once Considered Niche Financing, C-PACE Is Being Embraced by the Mainstream
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🌐 We've advised the senior lenders on the additional US$1.9 billion sustainability-linked financing secured by EdgeConneX, the EQT Group-owned edge-network #DataCenter developer, to support its EMEA digital infrastructure expansion. This deal upsized EdgeConneX‘s groundbreaking US$2.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing initially issued in October 2022, and elevated its total green investments to over US$7 billion over the last two years to support its global #DigitalInfrastructure growth. Our team: Matthew Dunn, Mike Niekoop, Hein Tonnaer, Carlijn Tenge, Maurice Oesterhelt, Lindy Mguni, Genevieve Morgan, Lotte de Bruin, Chris Verheesen, Charlotte Davidson-Horsten, Esmée Oldenkamp, Nolan Groenland, Stern Flik, Wim Aerts, Isaure Borreman, Pawl Puacz, Michael Jadwisiak and Joanna Korycińska. Read more: https://okt.to/7dLTwc #Sustainability
Clifford Chance advises senior lenders on EdgeConneX additional €1.75 billion sustainability-linked financing to support EMEA digital infrastructure expansion
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From $10 billion to $25 billion in a flash! That is the valuation change of Blackstone’s acquisition of QTS Data Centers (QTS) in just over two years. QTS (Quality Technology Services) is a leading provider of data center solutions with more than 9 million square feet spread across North America and Europe. The world’s largest private equity firm, Blackstone, says QTS could be one of its best investments ever. This is Blackstone Inc.’s bet on the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Server racks for AI computing can consume four times the power currently used in cloud processes, this according to commercial real estate advisory and services firm, Newmark. As this informative Bloomberg article by reporter, Dawn Lim suggests, providing data center space is, “when rents are measured by watts instead of square feet.” QTS estimates that its projects, once complete, will tap into some 6 gigawatts of electricity, equal to the needs of roughly 5 million homes. Frost & Sullivan selected QTS as its 2023 company of the year in the North American data center services industry category. Electricity hungry data centers: https://lnkd.in/dTHDSqsx #poweringgood #hitachienergy #powergrid #datacenters #electricity #energymarketintel https://lnkd.in/dB8Dyq2n
Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion Empire of Power-Hungry Data Centers
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