Spark needs mates to execute its datacentre play

Spark needs mates to execute its datacentre play
Spark is up against global datacentre providers, such as the Amazon facility shown here. (Image: Supplied)
Pattrick Smellie
According to the Australian business media, Spark has appointed Jarden to spruik the opportunity to potential investors or other funders for a 50% share of the smallest, but fastest-growing and most profitable part of its business: datacentres.The Australian investment community leaks like a sieve to its news media, so here in rule-keeping Kiwi-land, we may as well take their word for it.Spark’s strategy for finding someone else to help spend $1 billion on datacentre development over the next few years had been well signalled, so the Aust...

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