Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners has made a strategic investment in Flexential, a provider of data center services.

MSIP is partnering with GI Partners to drive Flexential’s growth. The investment from MSIP will help fuel Flexential’s growth strategy, driving its market presence and enabling investments in its national FlexAnywhere platform. Flexential is poised for growth from enterprise digital transformation, cloud adoption, and the emerging needs of hyperscale and AI workloads, according to the company.

Ropes & Gray LLP acted as legal counsel to Flexential and Goldman Sachs acted as financial advisor to Flexential and GI Partners. Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal counsel to MSIP, Citi acted as financial advisor to MSIP and Evercore also served as financial advisor to MSIP.