From d0c372b8faf83568cd378b4caa9047df5ba7bb59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DarkSun Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 01:04:19 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E9=80=89=E9=A2=98:=2020200203=20Private=20equi?= =?UTF-8?q?ty=20firms=20are=20gobbling=20up=20data=20centers?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit sources/talk/20200203 Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers.md --- ...uity firms are gobbling up data centers.md | 66 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sources/talk/20200203 Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers.md diff --git a/sources/talk/20200203 Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers.md b/sources/talk/20200203 Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..25feb6394e --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/talk/20200203 Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) +[#]: subject: (Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers) +[#]: via: (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3518817/private-equity-firms-are-gobbling-up-the-data-center-market.html) +[#]: author: (Andy Patrizio https://www.networkworld.com/author/Andy-Patrizio/) + +Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers +====== +Private equity firms accounted for 80% of all data-center acquisitions in 2019. Is that a good thing? +scanrail / Getty Images + +Merger and acquisition activity surrounding [data-center][1] facilities is starting to resemble the Oklahoma Land Rush, and private-equity firms are taking most of the action. + +New research from Synergy Research Group saw more than 100 deals in 2019, a 50% growth over 2018, and private-equity companies accounted for 80% of them. + +[[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]][2] + +M&A activity broke the 100 transaction mark for the first time in 2019, and that comes despite a 45% decline in public company activity, such as the massive Digital Reality Trust [purchase][3] of Interxion. At the same time, the size of the deals dropped in 2019, with fewer worth $1 billion or more vs. 2018, and the average deal value fell 24% vs. 2018. + +[][4] + +BrandPost Sponsored by HPE + +[Take the Intelligent Route with Consumption-Based Storage][4] + +Combine the agility and economics of HPE storage with HPE GreenLake and run your IT department with efficiency. + +Since 2015, there have been approximately 350 data-center deals, both public and private, with a total value of $75 billion, according to Synergy. Over this period, private equity buyers have accounted for 57% of the deal volume. Deals were roughly a 50-50 split until 2018 when public company purchases began to trail off. + +Anecdotally, I’ve heard one reason for the decline in big deals is there are no more big purchases to be had, at least in the US. DRT/Interxion is an exception, and Interxion is a foreign company. Other big deals, like Equinix purchasing Verizon’s data centers for $3.6 billion in 2017 or AT&T selling its data centers to private equity company Brookfield in 2019. There just isn’t much left to sell. + +The question becomes is this necessarily a good thing? Private equity firms have something of a well-earned bad reputation for buying up companies, sucking all the profit out of them and discarding the empty husk. + +But John Dinsdale, chief analyst for Synergy, said not to worry, that the private equity firms grabbing data centers are looking to grow them. “This is a heavily infrastructure-oriented business where what you can take out is pretty directly related to what you put in. A lot of these equity investors are looking to build something rather than quickly flipping the assets,” he said via e-mail. + +He added “In these types of business there isn’t that much manpower, HQ or overhead there to be stripped out.” Which is true. Data centers are pretty low-staffed. It was a national news item several years ago that Apple’s $1 billion data center in rural North Carolina would only [create 50 jobs][5]. That’s true for most data centers. + +At least one big player, Digital Realty Trust, was formed in 2004 after private-equity firm GI Partners bought out 21 data centers from a bankruptcy. DRT has grown to 214 centers in the U.S. and Europe. + +So in this case, a private equity firm buying out your data center provider might prove to be a good thing. + +Join the Network World communities on [Facebook][6] and [LinkedIn][7] to comment on topics that are top of mind. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3518817/private-equity-firms-are-gobbling-up-the-data-center-market.html + +作者：[Andy Patrizio][a] +选题：[lujun9972][b] +译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://www.networkworld.com/author/Andy-Patrizio/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223692/what-is-a-data-centerhow-its-changed-and-what-you-need-to-know.html +[2]: https://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/signup.html +[3]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3451437/digital-realty-acquisition-of-interxion-reshapes-data-center-landscape.html +[4]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3440100/take-the-intelligent-route-with-consumption-based-storage.html?utm_source=IDG&utm_medium=promotions&utm_campaign=HPE21620&utm_content=sidebar ( Take the Intelligent Route with Consumption-Based Storage) +[5]: https://www.cultofmac.com/132012/despite-huge-unemployment-rate-apples-1-billion-data-super-center-only-created-50-new-jobs/ +[6]: https://www.facebook.com/NetworkWorld/ +[7]: https://www.linkedin.com/company/network-world