The new Equinix data center in Bordeaux, France, expected to go commercial in the third quarter of 2021, will also serve as a landing hub for the new submarine cable AMITIE, connecting France to the United States and Great Britain.
The Bordeaux data center will launch with one megawatt of power capacity and 220 cabinets of equipment.The BX-1 site is due to provide colocation space of approximately 32,000 square feet (3,000 square meters), with a maximum of 1440 cabinets.
BX-1 will have direct fiber links to Equinix's International Business Exchange sites in Paris, and also features a modular design that is expected to be used elsewhere at Equinix edge sites.
Aside from reduced costs, the new modular design also allows Equinix to position data centers in areas where growth is expected, but where a more-traditional facility does not make commercial sense at the moment. BX-1 combines the functions of a cable landing station with a retail colocation space, for example.
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