DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI

DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI

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DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI
  • DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI
  • DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI
DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI

DATACENTER Project Finance Case Study (DATA CENTRES) ACTUAL CASE STUDY 2025 - DCI

$10.00
$10.00
A genuine Australian infrastructure investment case study covering a
data centre acquisition + development opportunity. Sanitised, rebranded,
and packaged as an ACTUAL Case Study 2025 product. Has PDF requirements, then sovled excel and PPT (attempted)
 
WHAT YOU GET
 
PDF (.pdf), Built Excel and PPT presentation.
The cleaned case brief with the full task description: background,
existing asset details (4MW ICT space, 90% occupied, land plot in a
premium AUS location), expansion opportunity (additional 12MW build),
construction cost benchmarks, lease and revenue assumptions, debt
metrics, exit options, and the formal investment paper deliverables.
 
THE EXERCISE
 
You are evaluating an investment to:
- Acquire an existing 4MW operating data centre site (90% occupied).
- Build out an additional 12MW (Asset B) on residual land at the same site.
- Hold and exit at one of: 15x EBITDA market comps or 6% yield basis.
 
You need to:
- Build a yearly project finance / development model from scratch
(no template provided).
- Estimate the maximum acquisition price the investor can pay against
a 17.5% post-tax equity hurdle rate.
- Determine the expected equity requirement across the holding period.
- Add upside and downside scenarios with simple model toggles.
- Run sensitivities on the 5 most critical inputs.
- Produce a 2-3 slide investment paper covering transaction overview,
key assumptions, operational performance, suitable debt metrics,
optimal exit timing, and your final recommendation.
 
WHAT IT TESTS
 
- Project finance / development modelling under realistic constraints.
- Debt sizing and DSCR shaping for an infrastructure asset.
- Returns analysis (post-tax levered IRR, pre-tax unlevered IRR).
- Scenario and sensitivity construction.
- Commercial judgement - is this asset worth owning, at what price,
with what financing, and when to sell.
- Investment paper writing - distilling a 30-year cash flow into a
3-slide recommendation.
 
WHO THIS IS FOR
 
Candidates targeting:
- Australian infrastructure investment teams (Macquarie Asset
Management, IFM Investors, AustralianSuper Infra, Igneo, QIC,
Aware Super, AMP Capital).
- Digital infrastructure / data centre specialists (DigitalBridge,
Stonepeak Digital, KKR Digital Infrastructure, Brookfield Infra).
- Big 4 infrastructure transaction services teams.
- Sponsor-side data centre operators evaluating M&A or new sites.
 
Difficulty: advanced. You build the model from scratch in Excel - no
template is provided. Comfort with project finance fundamentals (CapEx
phasing, debt sizing, DSCR, IRR / NPV, residual value methods) is
assumed.

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