{"id":778079,"date":"2026-07-03T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778079\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:37:09","slug":"cppib-spends-2-4b-with-eqt-to-build-ai-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778079\/","title":{"rendered":"CPPIB spends $2.4B with EQT to build AI infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Lang takes a \u2018by the numbers\u2019 look at Canadians\u2019 expectations for retirement \u2026 she then discusses the state of our national pension plan with John Graham, President &amp; CEO of CPP Investments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing $2.4 billion with Swedish private equity firm EQT and its EdgeConneX data centre developer and operator to build AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Max Biagosch, global head of real assets at CPP Investments, says the investment alongside EQT increases the fund\u2019s exposure to a sector supported by durable, long-term demand drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EdgeConneX has dozens of data centres around the world and has been expanding rapidly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Biagosch says EdgeConneX\u2019s strong customer relationships and proven development capabilities position it well to help meet demand while delivering long-term value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CPP Investments has been ramping up its investments in data centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last month, the investment manager committed up to $1 billion in a strategic partnership with CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., a data centre operator in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Lang takes a \u2018by the numbers\u2019 look at Canadians\u2019 expectations for retirement \u2026 she then discusses the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,45,49,48,46,133,15913,2940,61],"class_list":["post-778079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-hardware","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}