The $45 Million First Phase of the New Center to Provide Expansion
Opportunities for Existing and New Customers, as Equinix’s SG1 Center
Nears Capacity
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of global data center services,
today announced the opening of its second International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Singapore, located in the western region
of Singapore. The $45 million first phase of the new Singapore-2 (SG2)
IBX center will add 700 cabinets to Equinix’s capacity in the Singapore
market. With the Phase 2 expansion, which is currently in the design
phase, the SG2 center will have a total capacity of 1,700 cabinets and
10,219 square meters (110,000 square feet) at full build out.
Driving Equinix’s expansion in Singapore is the significant growth in
demand from the company’s existing customer base of carriers, content
providers and enterprises, coupled with increasing traction from
companies throughout South Asia and financial trading companies. In
addition to providing much needed colocation space, the new center will
enable Equinix to continue the strong growth of the company’s peering
business, as the SG2 center will be located near one of the key
submarine cable landing stations in Singapore.
“Singapore is a strategic market to Equinix and the company’s SG1 center
is the most network-dense data center in the country,” said Steve Smith,
president and CEO of Equinix. “We’ve seen continued strong demand in the
region and even with the recent completion of the phase 4 expansion of
the SG1 center in Q2 2009, SG1 is reaching maximum capacity. Today’s
opening of the SG2 center will enable Equinix to continue to meet
customer demand while planning for SG2’s second phase, with construction
expected to start in Q2 2010.”
Mr. Leo Yip, Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board,
welcomed Equinix's opening of the SG2 center and the company's continued
expansion in Singapore. "Equinix's investment reinforces Singapore's
position as a global IT hub and home for businesses seeking to expand in
Asia. There is a rapidly growing market for connectivity and data
hosting in Asia. The opening of Equinix’s second data center is
therefore timely as more companies choose Singapore as their data hub to
leverage on new growth opportunities in the region."
“Singapore's robust and trusted infocomm infrastructure as well as
skilled infocomm manpower provide excellent support for companies like
Equinix and activities such as data centers,” said RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay,
CEO of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.