Data Centres & Networks

Digital Edge receives financing for Asian expansion

Digital Edge, which delivers data centre and fibre solutions for hyperscalers and enterprises across nine countries in the Asia-Pacific region, has announced the successful closing of its inaugural US$575 million holding company (HoldCo) financing.

This, the company says, marks a significant milestone in the company’s continued evolution as one of Asia-Pacific’s leading digital infrastructure platforms.

The proceeds from the facility will support the continued expansion of Digital Edge’s campus footprint across existing key markets, including South Korea, Japan, India and South East Asia, as the company continues to scale to meet accelerating demand for hyperscale and AI-ready data centre infrastructure across the region.

The facility received strong support from lenders, the majority of which are existing financing partners of Digital Edge, reflecting, the company says, strong institutional confidence in the company’s operating platform, execution capabilities, and long-term development pipeline.

The financing includes a feature enabling the borrower to convert the facility into a sustainability-linked loan (SLL), subject to agreement on relevant and ambitious sustainability performance targets. 

Jonathan Walbridge, Chief Financial Officer of Digital Edge, explains: “The successful closing of our inaugural HoldCo facility strengthens the flexibility of our capital structure, enabling us to deploy capital more efficiently across our existing markets. The ability to incorporate sustainability-linked measures over time embeds ESG accountability into our financial framework, which is an important and deliberate step as we continue to scale Digital Edge’s platform.”

Recent successes in the Asian market for the company include the largest financing ever secured for a data centre project in Thailand and a US$665 million green loan to support development of the first phase of its planned 500MW AI-ready hyperscale data centre in Indonesia.



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