Data Center

Knight Frank has strengthened its market-leading international data centres offer with the promotion of Alex Burgoyne to Global Head of Data Centre Valuations, alongside the appointments of Jonathan Leung and Lizzie Quacquarelli.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is partnering with Australia's Macquarie Asset Management to jointly own data centers in Europe and the U.S.

Principal Real Estate completed on 18 February the first close of its closed-end fund dedicated to acquiring data centre assets in Europe.

Data centres developer and operator Kao Data has signed a £100m sale and leaseback of two prime data centres in West London. The 16MW data centre significantly expands Kao Data's platform, supporting immediate growth for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise organisations within west London and the M4 corridor.

BNP Paribas Real Estate (BNPPRE) has appointed Michael Umfreville to lead a new team focused on the leasing and land acquisitions of data centres across the UK.

Segro) has acquired a portfolio of offices on the Bath Road, Slough, from clients of AEW for £425 million.

Skanska has signed a contract with Virtus, to build a new data center in London’s metro, UK. The contract is worth GBP 53m, about SEK 620m, which will be included in the order bookings for Europe for the fourth quarter of 2021.