On December 17, 2020, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a specialist investor in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure, announced the establishment of a joint venture with Birch Infrastructure PBLLC to develop and construct renewables-powered hyperscale data center campuses in the U.S. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Quinbrook in the transaction.

The joint venture has identified and is actively developing multiple, strategically located sites to host next-generation, mission-critical, hyperscale data centers that will be designed and configured with the objective to: deliver sustained and long-term competitive cost advantages to the data center operators in land, power, utilities, and related infrastructure costs; provide low-cost "around the clock" renewable power supply and back-up resiliency solutions; assist hyperscale data center operators in meeting their accelerating carbon reduction and "net zero" targets with low-cost renewable power; and permit certification of each data center campus under the Department of Defense Protection Level 4+.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Quinbrook in the transaction includes Jason Slagle, Matt Bogdan, and Peter Mostow.

For more information, please see Quinbrook's press release.