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Equinix expands in Chennai, India

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Equinix expands in Chennai, India

Digital infrastructure company Equinix announced its expansion into Chennai with its first International Business Exchange data centre CN1 to support India’s goal of becoming a US$1 trillion digital economy by 2027-2028.

CN1 will support the needs of enterprises and hyperscalers, including AI deployments to help businesses capitalise on the digital opportunity in India.

With an initial investment of US$65 million, CN1 spreads over nearly six acres of land at Chennai’s thriving tech landscape in Siruseri and is expected to open in Q4 2024.

CN1 will be connected to Equinix’s three existing data centres in Mumbai.

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Equinix has the most hyperconnected data centre campus in Mumbai with the largest concentration of cloud on-ramps, telecom service providers, Over-the-top (OTT) media service providers, internet exchanges and financial ecosystem,” claimed Equinix India managing director Manoj Paul.

“The addition of our Chennai data centre will further extend this ecosystem to customers in Chennai.”

Key facts:
Equinix CN1 will be located in the Sipcot (State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu) land in the Siruseri area. The location is approximately 28 kilometres away from the bustling Central Business District, holding a key position near to anticipated submarine cable landing sites. This strategic location lays the groundwork for Equinix India’s expansion plans, enabling the extension of Platform Equinix to a key metropolitan area in India.

Equinix CN1 is a four-story building and will ultimately provide a total site capacity of 4,950 cabinets when fully built. Scheduled to open in Q4 2024, the first phase of CN1 will provide 850 cabinets.

Equinix recently opened a new IBX data centre in Mumbai, called MB4, adding 350 cabinets to Equinix’s footprint in Mumbai. The company also announced MB3 in Mumbai, which is scheduled to open in Q4 2024, providing an initial capacity of more than 1,375 cabinets, and more than 5,500 cabinets when fully built out.

Equinix hosts more than 300 companies in Mumbai, including around 200 network service providers and 5 internet exchanges. It is also the densest cloud ecosystem in India providing on-ramp to 8 cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.

Equinix’s facilities in India, including the upcoming facilities in Chennai and Mumbai, CN1 and MB3, are expected to be 100% covered by renewables. In 2023, Equinix achieved 96% Renewable Energy coverage across its global operations.

Globally, Equinix operates 260 data centres across 71 metros in 33 countries, providing digital infrastructure for more than 10,000 of the world’s businesses. In Asia Pacific, Equinix currently has 56 data centres in key metros across Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 26 June 2024.


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