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Equinix to build £61 million Manchester Data Centre

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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

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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

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

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Echelon acquires second UK data centre

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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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Skills and materials struggle to keep pace with data centre demand

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Global survey points to sustained demand through 2021/22, but also headwinds for the sector as global material and labour shortages cause delays and price volatility.

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Second phase of IONOS data centre completed with opening planned for 2022

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The second phase of the data centre being built for IONOS, Europe’s largest cloud hosting services provider, has been completed, with the location in the Midlands set to open in 2022.

Schneider Electric ranked world’s most sustainable corporation by Corporate Knights

Schneider ranked number 1 out of more than 8,000 corporations assessed for 2021 Global 100.

RedEye uses Node4 to ensure its retail clients maintain a competitive online edge

The marketing automation company drives success for its clients with digitally-driven...

Proximity opens Bristol edge colocation data centre

Latest colocation facility at heart of one of UK’s largest regions.

Leading edge for leading edge!

Leveraging Schneider Electric’s prefabricated data centre infrastructure, with remote access,...

Inter.link partners with Telehouse and London Internet Exchange (LINX)

Inter.link, a global Network-as-a-Service provider, is excited to announce its partnership with...

Heat reuse enabled mega site in Kouvola

Initial 60MW phase due second half 2025, to provide heat and hot water to the surrounding community.

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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

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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