Robin Lutz
Robin Lutz
Speaker
Senior Director, Infrastructure

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

Canada

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The Digital Trilogy: Examining Trends Around Towers, Fibre and Data Centers

Huw Owen
CEO,
Ark Data centers
Tim Cable
Senior Director,
Vantage Infrastructure
Maryann Nikkhah
Director, Infrastructure - Structured Finance EMEA,
MUFG Bank
Robin Lutz
Senior Director, Infrastructure,
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)
Moderator
Randeep Bubbra
Partner,
Watson Farley & Williams

Digital infrastructure is taking Europe by storm, with the trilogy of data centres, fibre, and towers taking centre stage. We break down this crucial sector, considering:

  • Can demand for data keep up with how quickly we can deploy new assets?
  • Are telecom companies having issues with raising debt?  Size matters: evaluating the hyperscalers vs co-location data centers
  • Finding megawatts: navigating the bottlenecks around availability and price of electricity. Examining the state of data center PPA’s
  • How do the issues around net zero and sustainability affect investor outlooks?
  • Will we see a fiber market consolidation? What are the trends around asset valuations?
  • What are the key takewayays from towers maturing as an asset class that we can extrapolate to fiber and data centers?
  • Examining recent tower and fiber M&A and refinancings
  • Evaluating the role of PPP’s in the future of fiber investment