EdgeConneX opens new data center for hyperscale cloud in Belgium
EdgeConneX has recently announced its entry into the Belgian market with the construction of a new data center campus near Brussels.
Currently under development 15 km away from the Belgian capital, the new campus will comprise four data halls supporting over 20MW of multi-tenant capacity for both hyperscale cloud customers and other service providers.
The project marks the seventh market in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and the 40th worldwide for EdgeConneX.
The company has been particularly active in the last quarter of 2021, deploying AWS Direct Connect 100Gbps in September and receiving recognition by Frost & Sullivan for its expanding portfolio of data center solutions.
“Our legacy is to quickly and successfully deliver data center infrastructure anywhere our customers require,” commented Dick Theunissen, Managing Director for EMEA of EdgeConneX.
According to the company, the geographic position of the new data center complex is strategic and will turn the facilities into a key gateway both into and within Europe.
This, in turn, will drive demand for data center capacity from global service providers wanting to support local customers.
“As we continue to expand both our Edge platform and hyperscale campuses globally, our data center to be built in Brussels will give us capabilities to meet our customers’ requirements for hyperlocal and hyperscale data center capacity in the vital and growing Benelux region,” Theunissen concluded.
The new data center is scheduled to start operations by early 2023.
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Analysis
Belgium is also uniquely positioned geographically, bordering France, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. EdgeConneX is not known to build speculatively, so presumably has some capacity already leased. Hyperscale built-outs are a leading indicator for demand in a market. For example, Microsoft has just confirmed a new Azure region for Belgium. Hyperscale drives not just growth with new availability zones, but with edge deployments, on-ramps and network nodes — all of which are increasing in capacity requirements at a rapid rate — and pulls in the ecosystem of application and service vendors around it.
Phil Shih, Principal Analyst, Structure Research
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Belgium | edge data center | EdgeConneX | EMEA | hyperscale | Microsoft | Structure Research
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