VivoPower to join KBRA panel on AI infrastructure and data center capital markets

VivoPower PLC (NASDAQ:VIVO, FRA:51J) said connected Thursday that its main concern serviceman Alex Cuppage volition talk astatine KBRA’s European Data Centers Event successful London aboriginal this month, wherever discussions are expected to absorption connected AI infrastructure financing and powerfulness entree challenges facing the sector.

The institution said Cuppage volition correspond VivoPower during a sheet scheduled for May 20 from 11am to 11:45am Eastern Time. The league volition beryllium moderated by Killian Walsh, managing manager of structured concern astatine KBRA, and volition see different manufacture participants.

According to VivoPower, the presumption volition halfway connected the company’s sovereign AI compute infrastructure strategy and the enlargement of its “Power-to-X” platform, which involves the development, ownership and leasing of powered onshore and information halfway assets intended for AI compute applications.

Cuppage said the AI infrastructure marketplace is experiencing a “fundamental shift” arsenic sovereign priorities go progressively important and powerfulness entree overtakes superior availability arsenic the industry’s cardinal constraint.

“VivoPower's exemplary is built astir controlling that powerfulness scarcity astatine scale, retaining extremity currency flows successful a imperishable superior vehicle, and moving broadside by broadside with sovereigns to present their nations' AI infrastructure,” Cuppage said.

He added that the institution looks guardant to discussing however changing marketplace dynamics could reshape financing and structuring models for AI infrastructure assets.

The sheet is expected to analyse financing structures for information centers, expanding unit connected powerfulness availability, and the relation of infrastructure-focused superior successful supporting rising AI-related compute demand.

KBRA’s lawsuit volition bring unneurotic information halfway operators, financiers and ratings specialists to sermon trends affecting information halfway superior markets. Topics are acceptable to see powerfulness proviso limitations, shifts distant from accepted existent property financing approaches, and emerging backing structures specified arsenic task finance, structured credit, associated ventures and asset-backed securities.

Walsh said the accelerated maturation of AI infrastructure is moving information halfway financing beyond accepted existent property models and toward a broader scope of superior markets structures.

“As marketplace participants research a wider scope of superior sources and structures spanning task finance, CMBS, ABS, and corporate-linked transactions, KBRA volition proceed to supply rigorous, thoughtful, and transparent investigation of the recognition risks and structural features that thrust transaction recognition prime and assistance investors measure risks crossed evolving structures,” Walsh said.

The institution said investors and different funny parties tin registry to ticker the presumption done KBRA’s website.