{"id":130471,"date":"2022-01-22T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130471"},"modified":"2022-01-22T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T09:22:14","slug":"keppel-data-centre-fund-ii-kdcf-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/keppel-data-centre-fund-ii-kdcf-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Which of the following has committed USD150 million to invest in the development of data centers that mostly serve emerging Asia through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II ?<\/strong><br>a. AIIB<br>b. IMF<br>c. USAID<br>d. World Bank<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AIIB has recently(January 2022) committed USD150 million to invest in the development of data centers that mostly serve emerging Asia through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II(KDCF II).<\/li><li>KDCF II is a closed-end private equity vehicle managed by Alpha Investment Partners Limited (Alpha).<\/li><li>It is AIIB\u2019s first data center project.<\/li><li>It is notable that AIIB has been investing in digital infrastructure in the past, but such investments are becoming more essential nowadays with the acceleration of 5G technology and other high-speed\/supercomputing digital infrastructure due to the pandemic.<\/li><li>AIIB\u2019s investment of USD100 million through a parallel fund structure and USD50 million through co-investments mark the final close of KDCF II.<\/li><li><strong>Significance &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>Many low- and mid-income countries lack their own domestic data infrastructure, and the disparities in data center penetration among countries with different income levels are wide.<\/li><li>This reflects shortcomings in the investment climate where major global investors have largely shunned investing in emerging and frontier economies.<\/li><li>KDCF II will enhance capital mobilization to develop data centers serving emerging Asia.<\/li><li><strong>AIIB &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) is a multilateral development bank whose mission is financing the Infrastructure for Tomorrow\u2014infrastructure with sustainability at its core.<\/li><li><strong>Keppel &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>Keppel Capital is a premier asset manager in Asia.<\/li><li>It is the asset management arm of Keppel Corporation, one of Singapore\u2019s flagship multinational companies with a presence in more than 20 countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiib.org\/en\/news-events\/news\/2022\/AIIB-Invests-in-Data-Center-Development-to-Serve-Emerging-Asia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.aiib.org\/en\/news-events\/news\/2022\/AIIB-Invests-in-Data-Center-Development-to-Serve-Emerging-Asia.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Which of the following has committed USD150 million to invest in the development of data centers that mostly serve emerging Asia through the Keppel Data Centre Fund II ?a. AIIBb. IMFc. USAIDd. World BankAns. a.Related facts &#8211; AIIB has recently(January 2022) committed USD150 million to invest in the development of data centers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[3721],"class_list":["post-130471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-current-affairs-economics-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130473,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130471\/revisions\/130473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}