ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

DayOne is a Singapore-headquartered data center platform that designs, builds and operates hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses. It was established in 2022 as the holding company for the international data center business of GDS Holdings and later adopted the DayOne name. The company develops clusters in the Singapore, Johor and Batam region, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and Finland, and sells capacity to cloud providers, large technology companies and other enterprise customers under long-term contracts. Its revenue comes from leasing and servicing data center capacity, power and connectivity. The platform is backed by technology and infrastructure investors and works with local partners, including an Indonesian sovereign investor, to build campuses. Its strategy is to build interconnected clusters that act as regional gateways for customers expanding across Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Firmus Technologies is an Austin-headquartered provider of AI data center infrastructure known as AI Factories, optimizing GPU clusters for maximum token generation throughput and profitability. Featuring liquid cooling across racks, power management, and AI FactoryOS operating system, it supports H100 and H200 GPUs with 99.99 percent uptime. Firmus' SMC cloud platform leverages SHARP networking for hyperscalers training large language models at scale.

Lancium Technologies is a Houston-based developer of data centers optimized for renewable energy integration. The company deploys distributed computing infrastructure at wind and solar farms in Texas, absorbing excess power to perform high-performance calculations. Lancium operates facilities like the 100 MW Pecos Valley site, partnering with utilities to stabilize grids and monetize curtailment periods.

IEIT Systems Co Ltd is a provider of IT infrastructure products, solutions, and services. Its business focuses on three fields: servers, storage, and networks. The company is committed to the innovation of digital technology along with the application and integration of digital worlds with the physical world. It is helping enterprises embark on a path of sustainable development by driving intelligent digital transformation.

Nscale is an AI infrastructure company and global hyperscaler that builds, owns, and operates data centers and high-density GPU clusters. The neocloud startup integrates everything from renewable power generation to hardware and orchestration software to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for enterprises and governments. Unlike traditional cloud providers, Nscale builds and operates its own data centers in regions with abundant, low-cost renewable energy (e.g., hydropower in Norway, renewables in Texas). In West Virginia, the company even owns behind-the-meter natural gas power plants to insulate operations from local grid fluctuations.

IonQ Inc sells access to several quantum computers of various qubit capacities and is in the process of researching and developing technologies for quantum computers with increasing computational capabilities. The company currently makes access to its quantum computers available via cloud platforms and also to select customers via its own cloud service. This cloud-based approach enables the broad availability of quantum-computing-as-a-service (QCaaS). The company derives its revenue from its quantum-computing-as-a-service arrangements, consulting services related to co-developing algorithms on company's quantum computing systems and contracts associated with the design, development, and construction of specialized quantum computing systems together with related services.

Oracle Corp Japan is an information technology company. Its products cover database management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehousing, customer relationship management, middleware, business intelligence, and application products. The firm provides cloud solutions, business solutions, industry solutions, mobile solutions, technology solutions and consulting, financing, training, cloud, and others. The company operates through three reportable segments: Cloud & License, Hardware Systems, and Services.

Global Switch is a London-headquartered owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centres in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. It leases space, power and connectivity in multi-tenant facilities to telecommunications carriers, cloud and internet providers, financial institutions and other enterprises, earning revenue from long-term colocation contracts. In 2019 it had 12 data centres with four more under construction, and for 2018 it reported revenue of £398.9 million and EBITDA of £274.7 million. The company was founded in 1998; the Reuben Brothers' Aldersgate Investments took full control in 2007 and turned the loss-making business around. Aldersgate sold a 49% stake to the Elegant Jubilee consortium, led by Jiangsu Shagang Group, for £2.4 billion in 2016, a 24.99% stake to Strategic IDC for £2.1 billion in 2018 and its final 24.01% to Shagang for £1.8 billion in 2019, leaving the business entirely under Chinese ownership. In October 2024 Global Switch agreed to sell Global Switch Australia, two adjoining 26MW data centre sites in the Sydney CBD, to HMC Capital for A$2.12 billion.

INWIT is an Italian tower and wireless infrastructure company that builds and manages shared digital infrastructure used by mobile operators. It was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from TIM and merged with the tower business of Vodafone Italy in March 2020, after which it entered the FTSE MIB index. The company is listed on Euronext Milan and is headquartered in Milan. Its assets include towers, small cells, distributed antenna systems for indoor coverage and Wi-Fi and IoT solutions, offered under a tower-as-a-service model. In 2025 INWIT reported consolidated revenues of 1,077.2 million euros and EBITDA of 984.4 million euros, and it guides to revenues of 1,050 to 1,090 million euros for 2026. Its largest shareholders include Central Tower Holding, which holds 37.6% of the share capital, and an investment vehicle of Ardian.

Dawning Information Industry Co Ltd is a China-based company engages in the manufacturing and selling of computers and servers. The company also provides industrial solutions and cloud computing services. Its products include server products, safety products, high-performance computing products, infrastructure, storage products, and cloud computing products. It offers integrated information services such as cloud computing and large data, software development, system integration and technical services.

Bersama Digital Infrastructure is a digital infrastructure holding company incorporated in Singapore as Bersama Digital Infrastructure Asia Pte. Ltd. It is controlled by the Indonesian groups Provident Capital and PT Saratoga Investama Sedaya Tbk. The platform owns the controlling stake in PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure Tbk, an Indonesia-listed independent telecommunications tower company. It is also the vehicle through which its owners pursue investments in towers, fibre and data centres across Southeast Asia, including a majority stake in the Philippine tower company Alliance Towers. Revenue comes from tower leasing to mobile operators through its operating subsidiaries. A Macquarie Asset Management-led consortium holds a minority stake alongside the two founding shareholders.

Super Micro Computer Inc provides high-performance server technology services to cloud computing, data centers, high-performance computing, and the Internet of Things embedded markets. Its solutions include servers, storage systems, modular blade servers, workstations, full-rack scale solutions, networking devices, server sub-systems, and server management. These turn-key solutions are designed, developed, validated, and installed for AI datacenters. The company has one operating segment that develops and provides high-performance server solutions based upon a, modular and open-standard architecture. More than half of the firm's revenue is generated in the United States, with the rest coming from Europe, Asia, and other regions.

Cellnex owns and operates more than 100,000 wireless towers in Europe, the result of continued merger and acquisition activity since its initial public offering in 2015. It has acquired towers from several European mobile network operators, including Telefonica, Iliad, CK Hutchison, Bouygues, and Altice. Cellnex is present in France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the United Kingdom, among others.

SBA Communications owns a portfolio of about 45,000 wireless towers throughout North America, South America, and Africa. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, who install equipment to support their wireless networks. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with most revenue in each market being generated by the top few mobile carriers. It owns more than 17,000 towers in the US, which account for about 75% of leasing revenue. Internationally, SBA’s largest presence is in Brazil, where it owns roughly 10,000 towers. SBA operates as a real estate investment trust.

Lambda is an AI cloud computing company headquartered in San Jose, California, that provides GPU infrastructure for training and running machine learning models. It was founded in 2012 by Stephen Balaban and Michael Balaban and began by selling deep learning workstations and servers. Its products now include on-demand GPU cloud instances, reserved multi-node clusters, supercomputers built on Nvidia accelerators, colocation, and the Lambda Stack software distribution for AI frameworks. It builds and leases data centre capacity to AI developers, enterprises, research institutions and government agencies. Revenue comes mainly from usage-based and contract-based cloud compute, together with hardware sales. The company is financed by venture equity and asset-backed debt secured on the GPUs it deploys.

Wangsu Science & Technology Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the provision of telecommunication value-added services. It is mainly engaged in the provision of a content delivery network (CDN) services, Internet data center (IDC) services, and cloud service integrated solutions. The company operates its business in domestic and overseas markets.

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk is a data center provider in Indonesia. It provides reliable, well networked, and well-managed cloud and carrier-neutral data center infrastructure services in Indonesia. The company operates in two segments: Colocation services and Others. The services offered by the company include Colocation, Cross Connect, Flexspace, Smarthands, CloudConnect, and DCI Internet Exchange.

China Unicom is the incumbent fixed-line operator in 10 northern Chinese provinces, as well as the third-largest wireless operator nationwide. As of June 2025, it had around 355 million billing wireless customers and over 125 million fixed-line subscribers. China Unicom also has a growing ICT business. We estimate it has the third largest internet data center business in China with 420,000 cabinets and its Cloud Service revenue is also showing strong growth. It has its own 4G network and shares the radio access function with China Telecom for its 5G network.