Yaar, aajkal data center ka business full chalu hai, aur sabse bada reason hai Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine ko chalane ke liye bohot saara computing power aur storage chahiye na, toh iski demand zabardast badh rahi hai. Isi wajah se KKR aur Singtel ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) ko lagbhag S$13 Billion (yeh lagbhag $10.2 Billion USD banta hai) mein kharidne ke bilkul kareeb hain.
Aur pata hai kya? Yeh jo S$13 Billion ka number hai na, yeh pehle ki talks se kaafi zyada hai. Kuch time pehle toh sirf S$5 Billion (yeh lagbhag $3.93 Billion USD) ki baat chal rahi thi majority stake ke liye. Par AI ki demand itni tezi se badhi hai ki is value mein itna bada jump aaya hai. Lagta hai KKR aur Singtel ko is business mein future dikh raha hai.
Ab STT GDC hai bhi kaafi solid company. Poore world mein inke 100 se zyada data centers hain, 20 se bhi zyada bade markets mein. Aur inki total IT load capacity 2 Gigawatts se bhi upar hai. Matlab, big cloud companies aur AI apps banane waalon ki demand poori karne ke liye yeh perfect hain.
Yeh deal ho kaise rahi hai? Toh ST Telemedia Global Data Centres ko unki parent company ST Telemedia bech rahi hai. Aur ST Telemedia poori ki poori Singapore ki government ki investment firm Temasek Holdings ki hai. KKR toh already STT GDC mein lagbhag 14% stake rakhta hai, aur Singtel ka bhi 4% se zyada stake hai. Agar yeh deal ho gayi, toh sab kuch consolidated ho jayega aur AI ke liye jo future mein expansion chahiye, uske liye paisa lagana aasan ho jayega.
Yeh deal Asia mein data center sector ki sabse badi deals mein se ek hogi. Poora Asia-Pacific region digital infrastructure ke liye bohot important ban gaya hai. Kai bade deals pehle bhi hui hain, jaise Blackstone ne AirTrunk ko kharida tha. STT GDC khud bhi pichle January mein AI ke liye ek advanced testbed launch kar chuka hai, joh dikhata hai ki woh future ke liye ready hain.