Brookfield Infrastructure, Digital Realty form JV for data centres

The venture will expand Brookfield Infra's global data portfolio of $23 billion in assets across data transmission, distribution and storage, and 139,000 telecom wireless towers India

Brookfield Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Canada's Brookfield, and NYSE-listed Digital Realty, the global provider of data centres, today announced the setting up of an equal joint venture to develop data centres in India. The JV will operate under the brand name BAM Digital Realty.  

The joint venture will expand Brookfield Infrastructure’s global data infrastructure portfolio, which currently includes $23 billion in assets across data transmission, distribution, storage, and a portfolio of 139,000 operational telecom wireless towers in the country. Brookfield Infra intends to expand this to 175,000 over the near term. The company has over a decade of experience investing