Equinix has opened its third data center in Warsaw, Poland.
The $34 million WA3 International Business Exchange (IBX) opened on March 5. Now undergoing its first expansion phase, the data center offers 475 cabinets and more than 1,400 square meters (15,000 square feet) of colocation space. Once the data center is fully built out, the facility will include more than 3,500 square meters (38,000 square feet) of colocation space, with capacity for approximately 1,200 cabinets.
WA3 data center will use 100 percent renewable energy from wind power.
Equinix previously announced that it will invest $45 million over the next five years in a Product Development Center in Warsaw to design advanced, customer-inspired, software-defined networking products; develop virtual IT infrastructure capabilities; and perform data science–backed IT infrastructure research aimed at accelerating global digital business. The PDC in Warsaw is one of three Equinix innovation locations of
