Switzerland: Nestlé sells Swiss data center to local real estate firm

The multinational food conglomerate Nestlé has sold a Swiss data center. This week, Baker McKenzie Switzerland revealed that it advised Nestlé Global Real Estate on the transfer of its data center and office property to Orllati Real Estate SA. The site at Rte de Buyère 4 in Bussigny, canton of Vaud, is 409,000 square feet. Nestlé did not disclose the parameters of the sale, nor did it indicate whether it intends to vacate the property.

Orllati, founded in 1995, is one of the leading construction companies in French-speaking Switzerland. Nestlé's origins extend back to the 1860s when two Swiss companies that would later merge to form the company in 1905 were founded.

Nestlé signed a $500 million contract with IBM in 2002 to replace more than 100 of its IT facilities around the globe with five new centralized data centers that IBM would provide, but Nestlé would operate.

Sydney, Australia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Frankfurt, Germany, were designated to house three regional data centers. A consolidation data center and a development data center were to be established in Bussigny, Switzerland. Previously, the corporation collaborated with Ixcellerate in Russia. An Equinix case study in Japan suggests that the food behemoth is an AWS customer. According to a Deloitte case study, the corporation is also an Azure customer in the United States. The company established a new data center in Mexico in 2014 and So Paulo, Brazil in 2019.