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The Financial Times adds that Ark Data Centres maintains significant contracts with government and enterprise customers. That gives a clearer picture of the organisation behind the reported sale talks, beyond its network of 27 sites.

The FT describes the potential transaction as one of the sector’s largest deals this year, against a backdrop of surging infrastructure investment. That is the newspaper’s characterisation of the deal’s prospective scale, not a completed transaction.

Ark’s reported public-sector and business relationships make the possible change of ownership relevant to more than property investors: data centres provide computing infrastructure used by those customers. The FT still describes talks, not an agreed acquisition.

Sources and evidence

• Sources: TPG is in talks to acquire UK-based Ark Data Centres, which operates 27 data centers in the UK and Belgium, from Elliott Management at a ~$5B valuation: The FT adds that Ark maintains significant government and enterprise contracts and describes the potential transaction as among the sector’s largest deals this year.

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