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Exa Infrastructure Secures more than €1.3bn in Latest Refinancing

Fiber firm Exa Infrastructure has refinanced its existing facilities and raised more than €1.3 billion ($1.52bn) in new financing which will support Exa's "continued growth ambitions and network expansion plans."“This move gives us an unrivalled ability to continue investing in our network, at...

October 23, 2025

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euNetworks to Shut Down Amsterdam Data Center

European fiber firm euNetworks is exiting its Amsterdam data center in the Netherlands as colocation customers have apparently been asked to vacate the data center by next year.The news was revealed by Dirk Pol, of Dutch connectivity firm i4 Solutions, in a post on LinkedIn. “euNetworks will b...

July 25, 2025

Amsterdam

Exa Infrastructure to acquire Bulgarian telco GCN

Exa Infrastructure has announced its plans to acquire Bulgarian telco Global Communication Net AD (GCN). Exa Infrastructure did not disclose terms of the deal, but the company did state it expects the deal to conclude the during the fourth quarter of this year."The GCN network consists of over...

September 09, 2024

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Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber form new partnership terrestrial cable development

Exa Infrastructure and Socar Fiber have partnered to develop a new 1,850km terrestrial cable which will will span the breadth of Turkey (officially Türkiye), with the potential to run along the Iraq border as an alternative to subsea cables in the Red Sea corridor.Steve Roberts, senior vice pr...

July 04, 2024

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Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2024

Amsterdam

nLighten acquires seven data center from sister company

European Edge firm nLighten has acquired seven data centers from sister company Exa Infrastructure in a move which positions it as a "frontrunner" in the European data center market, while allowing Exa to focus on its terrestrial and subsea fiber network. This expansion brings nLighten's total...

April 05, 2024

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Aqua Comms Jim Fagan becomes Exa Infrastructure CEO

Aqua Comms and Exa Infrastructure announced this week that CEO Jim Fagan has jumped ship and will be leaving Aqua Comms immediately. He will be taking over the role as CEO at Exa Infrastructure in August. Chairman Alan Harper is to provide commercial and strategic assistance throughout the rem...

February 22, 2024

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Exa Infrastructure names Nick Read as interim CEO

Exa Infrastructure recently announced that former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read will lead the business with immediate effect. Read, appointed as chairman of Exa Infrastructure in June, will replace Martijn Blanken as chief executive on an interim basis. As part of the transition, Blanket ...

November 14, 2023

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Motion Hosting opens new data center in Europe

InMotion Hosting has announced the opening of its first international data center in Europe. The three-story data center is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will reportedly offer customers NVMe Hardware, 99.99% Network Uptime and Security Monitoring, refined UltraStack Server Configuratio...

April 03, 2023

Amsterdam

Iberian Peninsula, Spain's Digital Infrastructure Receives a $42.5 million Investment From Exa Infrastructure

Since its founding in 2021, Exa Infrastructure has spent $42.5 million in digital infrastructure for the Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Sixty-two miles of Barcelona's metro network have been upgraded, linking various data centers, including those owned by Interxion, Equinix, Edge Energy, and EdgeCo...

March 30, 2023

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Amsterdam to impose fines on data centers failing to switch off idle servers

In Amsterdam, an argument around data center energy usage has been brewing for some time. Back in 2019, in response to the amounts of energy being used up by data centers, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer announced a moratorium on new projects. This was eventually lifted, but...

April 08, 2022

Amsterdam

I Squared Capital closes the acquisition of GTT, launches Exa Infrastructure

I Squared Capital has completed the acquisition of GTT’s infrastructure business. It has also launched a new Company with the name Exa Infrastructure in the process. I Squared Capital acquired GTT Communications’ subsea, data center assets, and terrestrial network infrastructure. The acquir...

September 20, 2021

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Great Grey Investments buys unfinished Westpoort data center in Amsterdam

Great Grey Investment has acquired the uncompleted Westpoort Data Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data center was bought from Caransa Group. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tikehu Capital provided financing to Great Grey Investments and Westpoort Datacenter through ...

September 17, 2021

Amsterdam

GTT is considering Bankruptcy threatening the $2.15 billion sale to Interoute

It is being reported that GTT Communications is considering bankruptcy. A potential bankruptcy would interrupt the infrastructure sale (which was primarily the former Interoute, KPN and Hibernia) for $2.15 billion. We will be watching closely as the story develops.Additional Information: http...

February 19, 2021

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GTT sells Infrastructure Division for $2.15 Billion (Hibernia, KPN, Interoute)

GTT has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its Infrastructure division to I Squared Capital (ISQ) for $2.15 billion. GTT signaled plans to sell the infrastructure business last fall when it hired Credit Suisse Group and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors. It's expected that IS...

October 16, 2020

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