Strategic moves, APAC, China, hyperscale users
It was a slow week as the calendar turned to summer, with public holidays in the US, Canada and Hong Kong.
The strategic side of the game continues to be busy. A consortium of investors bought a stake in Global Switch as it looks towards a public offering, while another Asia-based investors are said to be looking at US-based operator T5. Meanwhile, BC Partners-backed PlusServer brought in a familiar face that is likely going to focus sharply on what it can do in the strategic arena.
Global Switch has pushed forward in Asia and the region saw a number of interesting development in the past week. China Mobile is building its second data centre in Singapore and Chayora is tracking with its hyperscale campus in Tianjin, China. Subsea cables and trading platforms also continue to expand on the back of global colocation footprints.
It goes without saying that cloud has been pushing the global data centre market and we recently got some interesting insights into how Uber plans to build out its infrastructure on a global basis. Meanwhile, uptake of cloud continues with Formula 1 being the latest logo to bet on AWS.
Earnings season is around the corner, but some privately held companies continue to share useful data points. The latest was Basefarm in Norway, which has an increasingly pan-European footprint.
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