Equinix selects Singapore for largest Asia- Pacific data center

SINGAPORE: Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the opening of its third International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, known as SG3, in Singapore.

The company’s flagship data center is the largest in Asia-Pacific and demonstrates Equinix’s ongoing commitment to the growing market demand for premium data center services from financial and cloud companies in the region.

Equinix additionally announced that Orange Carriers Singapore, a 100 percent subsidiary of Orange Group, global communications solutions provider, and Datapipe, a global leader in managed hybrid IT solutions for the enterprise, have chosen to deploy in SG3 as part of their global expansion.

Earlier this month Equinix announced that it will open five new data centers on four continents in the coming weeks to create more capacity for global companies to connect to their partners, customers and employees. By providing this increased capacity, Equinix expands its role in advancing the digital economy's interconnected era, in which businesses are demanding increasing levels of interconnection to accelerate business performance.

SG3 is Equinix’s largest data center facility in Asia-Pacific that was developed by Mapletree Industrial

Trust (“MIT”). It is a purpose-built facility with gross floor area of approximately 385,000 square feet, which can accommodate approximately 5,000 cabinets at full build, 1,000 of which will be available in the first phase.

With an initial investment of $53M, the opening of SG3 follows swiftly the sixth phase of Equinix’s second Singapore IBX data center, which now provides an additional 700 cabinets, and brings the total investment in Singapore to date to well over $300M.

With three data center facilities located in close proximity, Equinix ensures high-performance, network reliability, redundancy, and low-latency. SG3 and SG1 data centers will be interconnected through a dedicated fiber network, allowing customers in SG1 to expand their business within the Equinix platform. Direct tethering to SG1, which is the country’s most network-dense data center, enables customers in SG3 to interconnect with low latency, as if they were in the same location.

As the Singapore government continues to raise the bar in data center quality through eco-friendly initiatives, Equinix has also pledged itself to adopt sustainable technologies. In an effort to minimize energy consumption, SG3 was designed with the aim of operating as energy-efficiently as possible. In addition to green features such as motion-activated LED lights, a solar power system will also be implemented – a feature unique to SG3.