Equinix plans to build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford, Manchester, UK. As the UK’s second-largest city, Manchester occupies a key strategic location at the intersection of the UK’s highly resilient “figure-of-eight” fibre-optic network. The new IBX—called MA5—will be Equinix's fifth data centre in the Greater Manchester area and is scheduled to open in Q2 2022.
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