APAC, cloud, hyperscale, Europe, Africa, managed third party cloud
The sector continued to push forward and a busy week was highlighted by hyperscale data centre and cloud expansion, particularly in the APAC region.
Jakarta, Indonesia continues to be a market with long-term growth potential and both Chinese and US-based clouds are landing and building out in-country data centres. Tencent Cloud was the latest to enter and brought online its first availability zone in Jakarta.
There was other activity in the region. STT GDC began its new development in Singapore and the JV between EdgeConneX and Adani Group confirmed a customer: Indian e-commerce platform Flipkart. Meanwhile, property groups continue to eye the digital infrastructure vertical and ESR in Hong Kong acquired an existing data centre and land parcels in Osaka, Japan as it targets hyperscale opportunities.
Europe continues to see hyperscale development activity. DATA4 raised more capital for expansions and new market entry in Europe, while revealing plans to significantly increase capacity in its home market of Paris. The continued growth in Europe is attracting a steady stream of new entrants. Not all are up and running, but experienced operators are a critical component. Edged Energy has that behind it and is a new platform looking at building in Spain and Portugal. Elsewhere in Europe, EcoDataCenter in Sweden revealed expansion plans.
Brazil is a market that is similarly pushing forward at an accelerating rate and we have a few details on Ascenty’s financing and expansion plans. Meanwhile, in the US, NTT GDC opened a new site in Silicon Valley and DC BLOX started construction in South Carolina.
Africa is going to see more activity sooner than later and in the past week we saw activity from Africa Data Centres and Raxio Group put together financing and will target underserved African markets.
On the cloud and hosting side, things continue to evolve. Microsoft recently released some new products around edge and Google is looking to move into chip design. MSPs continue to grow public cloud practices and Rackspace disclosed a pair of managed third party cloud customers, Effectual confirmed a large AWS project with a government entity, while Pivotree revealed some interesting insights into its customer base, which has seen both the good and bad from the pandemic environment.
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