Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has made its first foray into the data center sector as one of the largest participants in Vantage Data Centers’ £320 million ($427 million) debt financing package.
MIDIS provided £73 million ($97 million) of the debt facilities to support the acquisition of Next Generation Data, Europe’s largest data center campus, and future expansion of the campus.
Located in Newport, Wales, Next Generation Data is a 180-megawatt data center campus offering wholesale out-of-town data center space for some of the world’s largest companies via an existing 72-megawatt facility and 108 megawatts of expansion capacity. Vantage Data Centers acquired the facility from its founders and InfraVia in July as part of an ongoing strategic expansion across Europe.
MIDIS said digital infrastructure assets such as data centers and fiber networks represent an increasingly attractive sector for the company, offering its insti
