Private equity groups have a surging interest in datacentres, funding more than 90% of M&A deals through the first half of the year. New data published by Synergy Research Group shows that GPs are clambering over the racks of servers and routers to get deals done and plug in to future global data demand. They may only house soulless rows of computer networks but these facilities are proving to be quite the centre of attention…it’s enough to make the machines blush.