Originally posted on Data Center POST.

At the fourth annual The Tech Capital International Finance Forum (IFF25), held May 12–13, 2025, at the historic One Great George Street in London, senior decision-makers, financiers, policymakers, and technologists from nearly 40  from nearly 40 countries convened to explore the transformative intersection of capital and infrastructure across the global digital infrastructure landscape.

The 2025 theme, “Connecting Capital, Creating Future,” set the tone at the forum, inspiring leaders to examine how emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), are reshaping the investment priorities and operational foundations of digital infrastructure throughout the world.

The Age of AI and Infrastructure Realignment

A repeating theme throughout IFF25 was the accelerating impact of AI on infrastructure demand and investment models. Marc Ganzi, CEO of DigitalBridge, gave the Keynote for the event, emphasizing the  urgent need for an “ecosystem approach” to AI-era infrastructure. He cited the interdependence of data centers, fiber networks, power systems, and edge computing as a holistic solution – rather than siloed solutions. As a result, Ganzi advocated for strategic partnerships and integrated investment to support AI’s massive computational and latency requirements.

The various panel discussions throughout the two-day event echoed Ganzi’s sentiment. Speakers, including Robin Khuda, Founder & CEO of AirTrunk; Matthew A’Hearn, Head of Digital Infrastructure at Blue Owl Capital; Giovanni Della Pesca, Managing Director, Macquarie Capital; Scott Schaevitz, Managing Director, Barclays Investment Bank; Joe Harar, CFO, EdgeConneX; Byrne Murphy, President of Kite Partners and many other speakers addressed the shifting calculus in deal-making, financing, and project development. With AI training and inference workloads demanding unprecedented scale and energy, conversations shifted toward future-proofing investments—considering not just ROI, but resilience, sustainability, and geopolitical risk.

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