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ALTAREA AND VANTAGE DATA CENTERS TO DEVELOP NEW CAMPUS IN FRANCE
Altarea, one of France ' s leading low carbon urban transformation groups, and Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, have announced the signing of a partnership to develop an AI and cloud data centre campus – expected to be one of the largest in France.
The campus will be developed on land owned by Altarea close to Bordeaux, France. Altarea has already secured a 400MW power connection with the French utility, enabling rapid time to market to meet accelerating AI and cloud customer demand.
The campus marks Vantage’ s first expansion into the French market and continued growth throughout EMEA, where it currently serves customers across nine markets. It also reflects Altarea’ s growing pipeline in the fast-moving data centre market.
Altarea and Vantage will bring together their combined expertise in real estate, development and digital infrastructure to support leading hyperscale, cloud and AI companies both from Europe and internationally.
“ This initiative is an important milestone for Altarea’ s data centre strategy. As presented during Choose France, we are committed to support the growing need of digital infrastructure in France,” said Alain Taravella, Executive Founder and CEO of Altarea.
“ We are pleased to partner with Vantage Data Centers, a global leader in digital infrastructure with more than 40 hyperscale campuses and 9GW of power capacity, with the view to significantly accelerate the completion of this project,” said Baptiste Borezée, Managing Director at Altarea.
“ Altarea’ s mission has always been to meet France’ s essential needs. As the digital transition becomes critical to national competitiveness, our local expertise enables us to deliver a full range of data centres with exemplary environmental performance,” said Ludovic Castillo, CEO of Altarea Data Center.
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