Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit

Global investment firm KKR will acquire a 20 percent stake in the regional datacenter business of major telecom conglomerate Singtel – a move intended to expand its Asian footprint. An announcement [PDF] from Singtel on Monday said KKR has agreed to pay over US$806 million for the stake and will have the option to increase its …

[Pascal Monett]

"from 62MW to 120MW"

Interesting. So, apparently the importance of a telecoms group is measured in megawatts.

I didn't know that providing comm lines and routing for supporting smartphone users was so demanding energy-wise. Do those cell towers use that much power ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "from 62MW to 120MW"

Broadcasters in the US are licensed by radiated power in watts, so I imagine that's the sum total of their licenses?

Most of my co-workers are 40 watts or less.

Edit: and this is a lower limit, since it's radiated power and doesn't include things like backhaul to the tower itself and other needs.

[David Hicklin]

Re: "from 62MW to 120MW"

still does not make any sense unless they are talking about the power consumed by (or available for computers in) data centres as it mentions the cash will be spend on expanding them.

strange way to measure it