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A look into private equity fundraising activities suggests strong Q1 launches of funds with renewable energy among their targets. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd, KKR & Co Inc, and Stonepeak Partners LP are all raising cash for $20 billion funds that include renewable energy investment. Brookfield\u2019s chief financial officer, Hadley Peer Marshall, says a $7 trillion investment is needed to finance the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
So far this year, clean energy investment has offered the potential for substantial returns. The Bloomberg Clean Energy Index has soared 31%, while the Bloomberg 500 Index rose 15% and the Bloomberg Magnificent Seven Index rose 20%.<\/p>\n
While the growth in power demand from data centers ramps up, data center operators are decarbonizing. This is being driven by net-zero commitments and new regulations. With tech giants accounting for 43% of clean power purchase agreements signed in 2024, the data centers supplying the infrastructure for their AI projects are likely to continue moving toward green energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A look into private equity fundraising activities suggests strong Q1 launches of funds with renewable energy among their targets. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd, KKR & Co Inc, and Stonepeak Partners LP are all raising cash for $20 billion funds that include renewable energy investment. Brookfield\u2019s chief financial officer, Hadley Peer Marshall, says a $7 trillion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3568,3126,5337,5349,12239,1664,1877,1099],"class_list":{"0":"post-33085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-deals","9":"tag-drives","10":"tag-equity","11":"tag-hunger","12":"tag-insights","13":"tag-power","14":"tag-private","15":"tag-record"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}