EdgeConneX has made a strategic investment in Chinese data center provider Chayora in a move that connects EdgeConneX with data center offerings in Beijing and Shanghai — two of the country’s largest markets.
Chayora has an existing hyperscale data center campus serving Beijing and a new campus in Shanghai that is under development. The facilities across the two campuses can jointly scale to more than 200 megawatts of IT load with access to 100 percent renewable energy. The transaction also gives EdgeConneX the ability to scale out Chayora’s platform to other major markets throughout mainland China.
“Over the last 10 years, EdgeConneX built out its global data center platform by working with our customers to give them the data center capacity where they want it, when they want it and at the scale they want it,” said Randy Brouckman, CEO of EdgeConneX. “As our customers look for solutions in the APAC region, it’s vital that we include a data center presenc
