Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (Financial Times)

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EQT is buying Copia in a $2.6B data center power infrastructure deal, reflecting continued investor demand for AI compute capacity.

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a66c1d90-682b-480a-8fc3-fb7b7e2f1873"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260709/i47.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260709/p47#a260709p47" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a66c1d90-682b-480a-8fc3-fb7b7e2f1873">Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Deal underscores bright spot for private equity portfolio company sales amid strong demand for AI infrastructure</p>