Data centre services company Ascenty has reached an agreement to build two new data facilities in the state of Queretaro, North-Central Mexico.
Digital Realty, a provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure joint venture company, announced the agreement earlier this week.
Both initial phases are scheduled for delivery in 2021, and the two new facilities combined are expected to deliver up to 36 megawatts of total IT capacity upon full buildout. The new data centres will be interconnected via an underground dark fibre-optic network, providing access to networks, cloud, and connectivity providers in a single, secure environment.
The partners say that the expansion of PlatformDIGITAL, a solution built to enable the changing data, control and networking demands of global enterprises across Latin America, will enable customers to rapidly scale digital transformation by deploying critical infrastructure with a leading global data centre provider at the heart of a growing community of interest in Mexico.
Ascenty’s dedicated 4,500-kilometre fibre optic network connects the company's facilities in major cities in the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza to leading global cloud providers, delivering a wide-ranging and secure interconnection platform.
Mexico and Mexico City represent Digital Realty’s 21st country and 45th metropolitan area and are also among the biggest areas it serves. As Ascenty’s chief executive officer Chris Torto points out: "Mexico City is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, while Mexico is the second-largest country in Latin America with a population of over 120 million, and the percentage of population using the internet is growing steadily.”