Equinix invests ?26m in London expansion

New data centre space doubles capacity to meet demand from customers in the financial services, content, cloud and enterprise segments.

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Equinix has completed the second phase expansion of its LD6 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in Slough, London. This new phase further supports businesses expanding in the UK, providing customers with the critical IT infrastructure required to gain competitive advantage.

With ?26M of capital investment, the second phase of LD6 will add 1,385 cabinets, bringing the total operational capacity of the data centre to 2,770 cabinets. This expansion is also an indicator of Equinix's continued commitment to the UK, where demand for data centres and colocation services in the cloud, enterprise and financial services sectors continue to grow.

With the fifth largest GDP by metropolitan area in the world, London is a key player in the global digital economy. Equinix's LD6 campus is one of the fastest-growing in the UK and has been established as a hub for businesses to interconnect in a secure colocation environment.

With more than 90 network service providers and access to a range of transatlantic sub-sea cables, LD6 is one of the busiest network nodes in the UK, and offers latency in the region of 30 milliseconds to New York and 4 milliseconds to Frankfurt. This makes it an optimal high-performance hub for cloud and content service provision.

The facility also houses LINX, one of the world's largest Internet Exchanges, and serves as a virtual financial centre for more than 170 financial services companies. A quarter of European equities trades flow through Equinix data centres.

Following this latest investment, Equinix’s LD6 London Slough campus will provide more than 408,000 square feet (38,000 square meters) of net premium colocation space interconnected by more than 1,000 diverse dark fiber links, increasing scale and resilience. Additionally, with seven data centre sites strategically located throughout London, Equinix provides businesses with increased options for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Equinix invests ?26m in London expansion

New data centre space doubles capacity to meet demand from customers in the financial services, content, cloud and enterprise segments.

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