Bain Capital Hscale in European Datacenter Market

Bain Capital hscale in European datacenter market

: Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers

Bain Capital Hscale In European Datacenter Market • The Register - Data Intelligence

Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from customer unease over US hyperscalers. Given the imaginative name of hscale, the company appears to have been founded on Bain’s acquisition of an 80 percent stake in AQ Compute, the datacenter subsidiary of Aquila Group, in October last year. At the time, the pair …

Bain Capital expands digital infrastructure footprint

Global private investment firm Bain Capital has launched a hyperscale provider, hscale, to expand its digital infrastructure footprint across the EMEA region. The new launch is looking to develop replicable and scalable digital infrastructure across the region that is bespoke to hyperscale customers’ evolving requirements. The leadership team of hscale includes chief executive Oliver Schiebel, former head of Frankfurt-based data centre Mainova W…

Bain Capital launches hscale for EMEA hyperscale roll-out

Bain Capital has taken the wraps off hscale, a new hyperscale data centre developer that will channel ‘multi-billion Euro’ investment into more than 1 GW of capacity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  The move by Bain Capital is a further deepening of the private equity firm’s push into digital infrastructure following its acquisition of AQ Compute last October. It also follows other investments from private equity companies in the data…

Bain Capital Launches Hyperscale Provider Hscale

Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm, has announced the launch of hyperscale provider hscale, marking the next step in the firm’s expansion of its digital infrastructure footprint across the EMEA region. As part of this journey, which started with the acquisition of AQ Compute in October 2024, hscale is led by a newly appointed, highly experienced leadership team and is underpinned by Bain Capital’s proven strategies from succe…