Realty Income and Cloud Capital Launch $6 Billion Hyperscale Data Center Venture

CPP Investments Partners With CtrlS Datacenters for Up to INR 7,000 Crore AI-Ready Data Center Expansion

June 18, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

CPP Investments will invest up to INR 7,000 crore (about C$1 billion) in CtrlS Datacenters through an INR 4,000 crore purchase of an 8.2% stake, plus a joint venture to develop hyperscale data center campuses across India. CPP Investments will hold 48% equity in the joint venture, with CtrlS holding 52%. The partnership is intended to scale next-generation, AI-ready datacenter infrastructure to meet rising demand from hyperscalers, cloud services, and AI applications.

Hypertec Cloud Acquires 5C Data Centers to Form 5C Group

April 10, 2025

Infrastructure

Hypertec Cloud has acquired 5C Data Centers and spun Hypertec Cloud out of Hypertec Group to create 5C Group, a combined AI digital infrastructure provider. The deal integrates Hypertec Cloud's high-performance AI compute capabilities with 5C Data Centers' U.S. campus footprint to accelerate AI deployments, improve speed-to-deployment, and optimize performance and cost for large AI and enterprise customers.

DigitalBridge and Silver Lake Lead $6.4B Equity Investment in Vantage Data Centers

January 9, 2024

Infrastructure

Vantage Data Centers announced a $6.4 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake to accelerate expansion across North America and EMEA. The capital — incremental to a recently announced €1.5 billion EMEA commitment from AustralianSuper — will fund development of hyperscale, energy-efficient data center capacity to meet rising cloud and AI demand; the transactions are expected to close in Q1 2024.

TPG Real Estate Acquires Majority Stake in Three Northern Virginia Hyperscale Data Centers from Digital Realty

July 27, 2023

Real Estate

TPG Real Estate (through TPG Real Estate Partners) has acquired a majority stake in a portfolio of three stabilized hyperscale data centers in Ashburn, Northern Virginia, in a joint venture with Digital Realty, which retains a minority interest and will continue to manage the assets. The three facilities were contributed at an aggregate value of $1.5 billion (approx. 104 MW IT capacity), with the transaction valuing the portfolio at roughly a 6.0% cap rate and Digital Realty receiving about $1.3 billion of gross proceeds.

Intelishift Acquires Data Canopy with $50M Growth Investment from Metropolitan Partners Group

June 27, 2023

Infrastructure

Intelishift has acquired Data Canopy and the combined business will operate under the Data Canopy brand to expand cloud, hybrid-cloud and colocation offerings. The acquisition was facilitated by a $50 million growth capital investment from Metropolitan Partners Group to support the transaction and fund further acquisitions and organic growth.

Cloud Equity Group Acquires Data Network Services

January 22, 2021

IT Services

Cloud Equity Group has completed the acquisition of Virginia-based Data Network Services (DNS) through an asset purchase agreement. Cloud Equity Group intends to support DNS's growth plans, accelerating local expansion and enabling geographic expansion across the United States while DNS continues to deliver managed IT, consulting, and network services to SMB clients in Central Virginia.