Equinix has announced the purchase of Digital Reality’s Paris operations, including its real estate and data centre facility, for approximately $211 million (£158m).
The two companies, who continue to fight for supremacy in the colocation rankings – findings from Synergy Research in May showed Equinix as number one in colocation, with Digital Realty second and NTT third – came to a deal which included 1,000 cabinets of sold capacity in Equinix’s PA2 and PA3 data centres, as well as a further 1,000 for customer growth.
Equinix has seven data centre locations in Paris alone, three of which came with the company’s acquisition of Telecity in January this year.
