Telehouse has announced that it has begun work on its new data center at its TH3 Paris Magny campus in France. The second on the site, the data center, is located on a former EADS military site and will provide 12,000 sqm (129,150 sq ft) of IT floor space and 18MW of capacity across five buildings. According to the company, the new facility will "benefit from the highest levels of security and resilience and guaranteed uptime of 99.999%”.
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Takayo Takamuro, the deputy managing director at Telehouse, said: “This is a crucial step in our ongoing European growth strategy and adds value to our customers collocating in the UK and around the world." Takamuro added: "The expansion in Paris is an important piece in the global connectivity puzzle, enhancing the services we offer from our other locations and providing long-term benefits, including low latency global connections, greater bandwidth, and less jitter.”
The facility, set to open in October 2023, is part of a €1 billion ($988m) five-year investment plan. The company has said that €50 million ($49.4m) of this has been allocated to opening the new Paris facility.
