Global technology services provider NTT has opened a Tier 3-compliant colocation data centre in the northwest of Madrid, its first facility in Spain.
The facility, located at NTT's 12,516 sqm (134,720 sq ft) plot in the Európolis Business and Technology Park, offers 3,600m2 of IT space and a maximum IT capacity of 6.3MW when fully built out.
"The demand for data centre capacity in Spain has grown strongly in recent years,” said Florian Winkler, CEO of NTT Ltd.’s global data centres division in EMEA. “Madrid is the largest data centre hub in Spain and a European gateway to the world, and our investment in the region is another milestone on our global roadmap as we continue to expand our presence across the continent to meet the coverage, capacity and connectivity needs of our clients."
NTT said the new data centre will provide a proprietary Global Data Center Interconnect (GDCI) network structure to implement high-performance private connections to internet nodes such as ESpanix, NetIX and DE-CIX, as well as cloud providers such as AWS, Google, Microsoft and others.
"Spain has become a hub for communications in southern Europe in recent years, in part due to new submarine cables", added Araceli Pedraza, country MD at NTT Ltd. in Spain. "With our new data centre in Madrid, we are actively shaping the digital future of the region. Here, companies will find a reliable, secure and sustainable home for IT infrastructures. At the same time, comprehensive connectivity ensures maximum flexibility."
