Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition

Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports. Partners Group, a Swiss private equity and real estate biz which bought atNorth in 2021, is understood to be seeking between €4 billion ($4.6 billion) and €4.5 billion ($5.2 billion), …

[Like a badger]

Equinix is working with...Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Hopefully Canucks don't mind their pension contributions being used to buy out private equity types just as the entire market is asking "is the AI bubble about to blow?"

[Anonymous Coward]

AI is not the only reason the rest of the world wants datacenters outside the US

Canada is reducing reliance on US by building connections with Europe, Asia, and other regions.

[TimMaher]

Re: Canada

…while starting a war with OVHC while GrapheneOS (Canadian) is starting a war with OVHF because the French Govt. is behaving just like the RCMP.

What?!