<div dir="auto"><div>Yes they have 38 DCs according to their website. A lot are smaller edge DCs from various acquisitions. At 700M that is almost 20M per DC.<div dir="auto">Hats off to them if someone will give them that kind of money......</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Brain <br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 13:44 Roderick Beck <<a href="mailto:roderick.beck@networksourcing.net">roderick.beck@networksourcing.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think the point is that valuations are crazy high and investors are largely stupid (that is why financial bubbles happen). Most firms investing in data centers  copying other investors who were first or second movers. Me-too investing has always been an ingredient in investment bubbles. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM Marco d'Itri <<a href="mailto:md@linux.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">md@linux.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Jan 28, Roderick Beck <<a href="mailto:roderick.beck@networksourcing.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">roderick.beck@networksourcing.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/roderick-beck-94868948_italy-fibre-firm-retelit-reportedly-explores-share-7422242676772847616-KOmD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAoREggBkC3oGP8L5utwsRa7-vDFofXK3EM" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/roderick-beck-94868948_italy-fibre-firm-retelit-reportedly-explores-share-7422242676772847616-KOmD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAoREggBkC3oGP8L5utwsRa7-vDFofXK3EM</a><br>
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Based on the age and size of that infrastructure and the number of new <br>
large data centers being built around Milano, 700 M€ look like an <br>
ambitious evaluation to me...<br>
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ciao,<br>
Marco<br>
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