Switch secures $659M in fourth data center ABS offering

Since 2024, the company has raised $3.5 billion in ABS proceeds to fuel its data center growth strategy.

Key Highlights

  • Switch raised nearly $659 million in its fourth asset-backed securities offering, totaling approximately $3.5 billion since 2024.
  • All ABS issuances qualify as secured green bonds, reflecting Switch's dedication to sustainability and responsible growth.
  • The proceeds will fund new development at five campuses, supporting hyperscale, AI, and enterprise customers.
  • Switch retired $6.5 billion of bank debt in July 2025, strengthening its financial position.
  • The company plans to leverage ABS facilities to support its ongoing campus deployments and market expansion.

Switch has closed its fourth asset-backed securities (ABS) offering, raising nearly $659 million, which brings its total ABS issuance to approximately $3.5 billion. This makes Switch the largest single issuer of data center ABS since 2024. 

Since all of Switch's ABS issuances qualify as secured green bonds, they reflect the company’s dedication to sustainability and responsible growth.

Switch will use the process to fuel its growth strategy, which includes ongoing development at each of its five campuses for hyperscale, AI, and enterprise customers.

In July 2025, Switch announced it had retired all $6.5 billion of bank debt incurred during its 2022 take-private. This ABS issuance marks Switch's first securitization with proceeds dedicated entirely to fund new development.

Madonna Park, Chief Financial Officer of Switch, said that as its Tier 1 exascale campus deployments continue to ramp, it will continue to leverage ABS facilities.

"As our deep pipeline of fully leased multi-tenant and Hyperscale assets continues to stabilize, we expect to remain an active issuer across the ABS and broader capital markets."

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About the Author

Sean Buckley

Sean Buckley

Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove. 

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