Digital Realty acquires land in Amsterdam

Digital Realty has acquired a 36,000 sqm (8.9-acre) land parcel located on its existing Amsterdam Schiphol campus, one of the most highly connected data center campuses in the Netherlands.

The land parcel has the capacity to support a data center with a total installed IT power in excess of 40 megawatts (MW) and will be interconnected with Digital Realty’s existing Schiphol data centers, granting customers access to a wide range of colocation and connectivity solutions in a true campus environment. These include direct connections to unique network services providers and cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud, resulting in low latency, secure access to the world’s leading cloud providers, cost reduction and enhanced efficiency.  

 

“Data centers sit at the very heart of the global digital economy, providing the foundations for our customer communities to grow and thrive. Our customers continue to count on us, as they have for the past 25 years, to support their current and future growth ambitions. With this land parcel in Schiphol-Rijk, we’re doing just that. We will continue to work closely with the local government to ensure our new future facility meets the high standards that have been laid out,” said Vincent in ’t Veld, Managing Director at Digital Realty in the Netherlands.

   

A new data center in Amsterdam would further expand PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data center platform, which enables customers to rapidly deploy their critical infrastructure at the heart of a growing connected data community consisting of 1,500+ enterprises, 1,300+ network service providers, and 1,100+ cloud and IT providers globally.  

 

The strategic acquisition of this new land parcel in Amsterdam is expected to enable Digital Realty to address future demand for colocation and connectivity services in Amsterdam, as well as help support the country’s ambitions to become a leading adopter of artificial intelligence (AI). In 2021, the Netherlands AI Coalition (NL AIC), a public-private partnership, received a share of a EUR 276 million investment in the development of AI, which has since seen the country take the eighth spot in Tortoise Media’s Global AI Index, the first index to benchmark nations on their level of investment, innovation, and implementation of AI.

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