Hyperscale, colocation job postings, cloud, Canada, Europe, M&A, HPC
It was a somewhat slower week, with long weekends in North America and Europe, along with holiday seasons in parts of Southeast Asia.
The emergence of hyperscale self-builds continues to have an impact on the sector. The demand profile for hyperscale colocation is clearly going to shift, but colocation remains something that hyperscalers will consume on a global basis. AWS recently put out a job posting for a colocation engineer that confirms this, yet at the same time there are investments being made at hyperscalers for more internal data centre resources.
Meanwhile, there was meaningful activity in Canada. Cologix rolled out support for AWS Outposts in Vancouver, while Equinix is working on a second data centre location in the Montreal market.
There was also some strategic activity. Actis acquired a portfolio of data centre assets from Nabiax, while Conapto in Sweden secured capital for an expansion and Scandinavian provider GleSYS got new ownership.
Elsewhere in Europe, atNorth secured a logo bank for HPC capacity and maincubes will build in Berlin, Germany.
Finally, there continues to be momentum in HPC computing scenarios and quantum computing workloads are starting to emerge in colocation data centres. As an example, Equinix recently deployed a quantum computing service provider in one of its Tokyo data centres.
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