The US$60M expansion into Melbourne will meet the demand for data center services in Australia and enhance Equinix's global footprint in Asia Pacific.
Equinix, Inc. has announced it plans to invest approximately US$60M to build a new data center in Melbourne. Equinix's new Melbourne data center — called ME1 — will address strong demand from customers for premium data center services in Melbourne, as data consumption and cloud services experience continued growth in the Australian and global IT markets.
"We continue to see a surge in demand for data center and interconnection services in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and the addition of ME1 will aid enterprises looking to gain proximity to customers and partners and to improve application performance for employees and end-users in Australia," said Tony Simonsen, managing director, Equinix Australia.