New 19 MW Data Centre Commences Major Expansion in France
PARIS, 21st April, 2020.
Interxion
, a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data
centre services and a Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) company, today announced
that it has begun the construction of a major expansion project in Paris.
Named the Interxion Paris Digital Park, the new site has access to up to 85
megawatts (“MW”) of customer available power and will accommodate four data
centres spanning a total of approximately 40,000 square metres of equipped
space.
This major development represents a strategic expansion of PlatformDIGITAL™
in France, enabling customers to deploy their critical infrastructure with a
global data centre provider in one of the leading Cloud and Interconnection
Hubs in Europe, where a thriving community of connectivity providers,
platforms and enterprises has been developed over the past 20 years.
The first data centre on the site will be Interxion’s eighth data centre in
Paris (“PAR8”). PAR8 is being constructed in three phases, delivering, in
aggregate, 9,600 square metres of equipped space and 19 MW of customer
available power when fully built out. The first phase of PAR8, which is
expected to provide approximately 3,200 square metres, is scheduled to open
in late 2021. The capital expenditure associated with PAR8, excluding land
and other shared costs for the site, is expected to be approximately €207
million.
Adjacent to Interxion’s existing PAR7 facility, the Interxion Paris Digital
Park will benefit from the high levels of network connectivity at the
company’s seven existing data centres across Paris, all of which are
inter-connected.
“We continue to experience solid demand across our pan-European footprint,
with the cloud and content platform providers, in particular, continuing to
expand their presence in the key European cities,” said David Ruberg, Chief
Executive Officer of Interxion, a Digital Realty company. “Interxion Paris
Digital Park meets the key requirements of local and international customers
with access to dense network connectivity, available power and line of sight
to substantial expansion capacity and will keep us at the forefront of the
Paris market opportunity.”
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About Interxion
Interxion, a Digital Realty company, is a leading provider of carrier- and
cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving a wide
range of customers through more than 50 data centres in 11 European
countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres
offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical
applications. With
>over 700 connectivity providers, 21 European Internet exchanges, and most
leading cloud and digital media platforms across its footprint, Interxion
has created connectivity, cloud, content and finance hubs that foster
growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit
www.interxion.com.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty
(NYSE: DLR) supports the data centre, colocation, and interconnection
strategies of customers across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, ranging from
cloud and information technology services, communications and social
networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and
consumer products. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit
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Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ
materially, including the construction of Interxion Paris Digital Park,
expected IT load, square footage, timeline to completion and costs, the
inability to utilise the capacity of newly planned data centres and data
centre expansions, delays in connection with the development of new data
centres or data centre expansions, significant competition, the cost and
supply of electrical power, and data centre industry over-capacity. For a
list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports and
other filings by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. The company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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