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Edge takes centre stage for Proximity

John Hall, Managing Director Colocation, Proximity Data Centres, explains the company’s strategy as it builds out a network of 20 or so regional, or edge, UK colocation data centres. With the halfway point already in sight, he is confident that the company’s business model is an attractive proposition for a variety of customers. John also shares some fascinating insights as to how he sees the data centre industry developing over time, as it tries to reconcile increasing demand with its...

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Equinix to build £61 million Manchester Data Centre

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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Raxio Group continues to expand African footprint

Raxio Group is investing to build and operate a 1.5MW, colocation data centre in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Amazon to open New Zealand’s first data centre

Data centres predicted to become a $948bn global industry by 2030 according to GlobalData.

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Sustainable digital infrastructure in the spotlight

Thor Johnsen, Head of Digital Infrastructure at investment company Triple Point Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) and Dominic Ward, CEO of Icelandic data centre operator Verne Global, discuss the investment company’s recent acquisition of the Icelandic data centre operator, with sustainability very much front and centre. Both provide valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of sustainable investment, operating truly sustainable data centres and of responding to the wider focus on...

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Echelon acquires second UK data centre

Echelon Data Centres, the Irish-owned company committed to delivering cleanly-powered and sustainable large-scale data centre assets, has announced a USD 250 million agreement with an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group to jointly acquire and construct its second UK data centre, LCY20.

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Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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