Vodafone Türkiye and Emirati firm Damac have joined forces to bring a new data center to Türkiye with an investment of US$100 million, said the CEO of the Turkish firm.
The partnership will be half-and-half between the two firms, Engin Aksoy said in a press release in Istanbul.
Under the cooperation, the new data center will open in the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir.
The center is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2025, with activities of data migration and hosting services.
The center will be one of Vodafone's largest-capacity data centers in the Aegean region, reaching up to a six megawatt capacity in the long term.
It will be designed as a structure suitable for growth up to a total capacity of 12 megawatts.
Aksoy said Vodafone has an important role in the Turkish economy, as over the last 17 years the real value of its investments in Türkiye reached 157.6 billion Turkish liras ($5.1 billion).
Aqil Ali, senior vice president at Damac, said that his firm plans to make $1 billion worth of data center investments, with the Izmir project included in this amount.
It will be a data center that allows efficient modular growth and will be a value-added investment for both countries, he added.
The new center, which will have the latest technology, will be designed according to Tier 3 standards, which means it has systems to update and maintain services without taking it offline – or uptime of 99.982%.
The center will be connected to Europe via both terrestrial and undersea cables.