{"id":61386,"date":"2025-08-12T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61386\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:53:07","slug":"pacific-equity-partners-buys-spark-new-zealand-data-centres-for-532m-to-boost-ai-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61386\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Equity Partners buys Spark New Zealand data centres for $532m to boost AI, cloud computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Equity Partners is betting on strong demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing services in New Zealand after snapping up a majority stake in data centres owned by the country\u2019s biggest telecommunications group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/pep-in-lead-to-buy-stake-in-spark-nz-s-555m-data-centre-platform-20250810-p5mlr9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As flagged by The Australian Financial Review\u2019s Street Talk<\/a>, telco Spark New Zealand has sold a 75 per cent stake in its 11 data centres to the Australian private equity group for up to $NZ584 million ($532 million) in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacific Equity Partners is betting on strong demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing services in New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-61386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}