Intelligent Data Centres Issue 21 | Page 26

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NORTH AMERICA
Equinix , a digital infrastructure company , has announced the completion of its acquisition of 13 data centres in Canada and their operations from BCE ( Bell ). The US $ 780 million ( CA $ 1,041 million ) all-cash transaction includes more than 600 customers , of which more than 500 are new to Equinix and approximately 1.2 million gross square feet of data centre space .
EUROPE
Aruba S . p . A is celebrating the third year of its Global Cloud Data Centre . The largest campus data centre is in Ponte San Pietro ( Bergamo ), Italy , and is spread over 200,000m ². To mark the anniversary of the campus , Aruba has formalised extensive expansion work that will lead to the imminent activation of two new data centres called DC-B and DC-C .
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