The investment company is teaming up with Franek Sodzawiczny to launch Global Technical Realty, which will develop and build data centres for large technology companies in Europe, the people said. Sodzawiczny, who previously founded Zenium Data Centers, will become chief executive officer of GTR.
KKR is committing capital from its third global infrastructure fund to GTR, which will be able to deploy more than USD 2.5 billion to building new data centres including debt financing. A representative for KKR declined to comment.
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