Data center colocation company Equinix announced May 26 it would be expanding two of its Hong Kong data centers, HK1 and HK2, by adding room for nearly 1,200 cabinets total. The expansion will cost the company approximately $40 million. The HK2 expansion will bring the total capacity for this data center to 2,350 cabinets. Currently, the company's Hong Kong data centers offer over 215,000 square feet of colocation space.
In accordance with the company's plan to expand globally in 2015, Equinix is expanding its influence across the Asia Pacific region, and the expansion of the Hong Kong data centers is only one part of the plan. Equinix recently announced it would spend $100 million on a Sydney data center, and it opened a Singapore data center in March.
Other recent global investments for Equinix include a New York data center, a Toronto data center and a London data center. The company's data center expansion project will bring its total global data center space to over 10 million square feet.
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