Alternatives

AI Data Centres

Equity and debt access to GCC and global AI data-centre infrastructure.

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Overview

AI data centres are among the fastest-growing real-asset classes, underpinning the compute demand of frontier AI, with contracted, infrastructure-like cash flows. Matchpoint provides investor access and developer financing across AI data centres.

As part of our Alternatives practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents — and every alternatives mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.

AI data centres have emerged as one of the fastest-growing real-asset classes, underpinning the compute demand of frontier AI and cloud. They offer contracted, infrastructure-like cash flows with structural demand growth.

Matchpoint Partners gives institutional and family-office investors access to AI data-centre opportunities — equity and debt — across the GCC and globally, and advises developers on financing the buildout, from construction through to refinancing. See our related research on datacenter debt and data centres as an asset class.

How Matchpoint helps

Our role on AI data centres mandates

  • Equity and debt for hyperscale & edge
  • GCC AI-infrastructure buildout
  • Construction, expansion and refinancing
  • Institutional and family-office access
Track record

Select transactions

Representative alternatives mandates led by Matchpoint partners.

Infrastructure · Nordics
$100m

Data-centre construction & refinancing facility.

Project / Data Centre Finance · Nordics
AI Infrastructure · UAE
$200m

Hyperscale AI data-centre development capital.

Equity + Debt · UAE
Edge · MENA
$50m

Edge data-centre rollout financing.

Project Finance · MENA
Data Centre · Europe
€120m

Refinancing of a stabilised data-centre portfolio.

Refinancing · Europe
Innovation & insight

Our proprietary research

Original, data-driven research from our team, relevant to this area.

Questions, answered

AI Data Centres — frequently asked questions

Contracted, infrastructure-like cash flows with structural demand growth from AI and cloud.

Yes — see our Debt and Real Estate Financing practices for construction and refinancing.

Across the capital structure: development equity in new facilities, project debt against construction or expansion, acquisition of stabilised income-producing assets, or stakes in operating platforms. Each entry point carries a different risk profile, from development risk at one end to contracted-income credit risk at the other.

Contracted capacity with creditworthy counterparties, secured power supply, a deliverable site with connectivity, and an experienced operator. Power is increasingly the gating factor — lenders and investors scrutinise the energy arrangement as closely as the customer contract, because compute demand without power is worthless.

Power availability and cost, concentration on a small number of tenants, technology shifts that change facility requirements, and construction cost or timing overruns in a market where everyone is building at once. Contract length and counterparty quality are the principal mitigants.

It covers US pre-IPO secondaries, curated deal access for private equity funds and family offices, PE/VC fund placement, and AI data-centre investments — for qualified investors.

Pre-IPO secondaries, GP- and LP-led secondaries, co-investments, PE/VC fund placement and SPVs, plus thematic exposure to AI data centres, digital infrastructure and the energy transition.

Access is for qualified investors — primarily PE funds, family offices and institutions — subject to eligibility, suitability and counterparty terms.

Matchpoint works primarily on a success fee, with a modest retainer to cover execution. Fees are agreed in writing up front and scaled to the size and complexity of the transaction — with no hidden costs.

Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30–90 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.

A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.

Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.

Matchpoint has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions, with equity tickets typically USD 5m–300m, debt USD 10m–500m+, real estate finance USD 20m–500m+, and fund placements for funds of USD 50m–1bn+.

Use the enquiry form, email ck.adya@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.

Yes. Matchpoint runs discreet, confidential processes and discloses client identities only under a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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