EDITOR’S QUESTION
WHAT ARE THE DECISIVE FACTORS
THAT DETERMINE THE LOCATIONS
OF DATA CENTRES?
quinix, Inc, a
global provider of
interconnection and
data centre services,
announced that it will
open its first data
centre in Hamburg this year, with the
company citing the strategic advantages
of the location.
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Equinix is investing approximately US$36
million in the purchase, conversion and
expansion of the new data centre ‘HH1’
at Vierenkamp, which is expected to be
operational in the third quarter of 2019.
With Hamburg, Equinix will soon enter the
fourth market in Germany. In addition to
the data centres in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf
and Munich, HH1 will be the 10th IBX data
centre in Germany.
Hamburg will play an important role
in Equinix’s business in Germany. One
of the strategic advantages of the
location, for example, is the geographical
proximity to the North Sea, which offers
new possibilities for connecting to
submarine cradles.
As the most important commercial and
business centre of Northern Europe,
Hamburg also plays a major role for the
European and German economy.
Thousands of national and international
companies are based in the region and
benefit from connectivity with companies,
partners, network and cloud providers
within Equinix data centres.
Highlights
• • HH1 will be the first Equinix data
centre at the new Hamburg location.
The data centre will have 12,000 square
feet of whitespace and 1,875 cabinets
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
• • The new data centre is
geographically located close to
the North Sea and offers further
possibilities for access to submarine
cradles. In the past few years, Equinix
has already won more than 20
submarine cable landing points
• • In 2015, the Hamburg Senate
adopted the ‘Digital City’ strategy, the
aim of which is to establish Hamburg
as the leading digital location in
Germany and Europe. The strategy
should bundle processes and create
structures. With its infrastructure,
Equinix can contribute to the realisation
of these processes
• • In addition to the reopening
in Hamburg, Equinix plans further
investments in Germany by the end
of 2019. It was only in October that
Equinix announced the expansion of
the Frankfurt site. The company also
committed to spend over US$150
million on the organic expansion of its
German data centres for the 2018-2019
fiscal years
• • More than 900 companies use
Equinix data centres in Germany to
connect with partners, customers and
service providers within their digital
value chain
• • Today, Equinix operates more
than 200 IBX data centres in 52
markets, giving its customers many
opportunities to connect with other
companies around the world through
the Platform Equinix
Donald Badoux, Managing Director
Equinix Germany GmbH, said: “As a
port and commercial city, Hamburg
has always been known as Germany’s
‘Gateway to the World’. With the
help of our interconnection and
colocation services, we will soon
make sure that this also applies to the
digital world.”
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