INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Digital Realty launches
development of second
data centre in Hong Kong
Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer. “As we
continue to expand in Asia, the launch of our
second facility in Hong Kong underscores its
importance as a major data hub, providing
customers with the coverage, capacity and
connectivity requirements to support their
digital ambitions.”
The HKG11 facility will be built up to a
total of 12 floors, eight of which will be
dedicated for customer deployments.
The new facility will also offer superior
connectivity through close access to various
facilities-based operators.
Digital Realty has announced
the development of a new,
carrier-neutral data centre in
a purpose-built facility in
Hong Kong.
Digital Realty, a leading global
provider of data centre, colocation
and interconnection solutions, has
announced the development of a new, carrierneutral
data centre in a purpose-built facility
in Hong Kong – to be named Digital Realty
Kin Chuen (HKG11). The move marks another
significant expansion of PlatformDIGITAL
across Asia Pacific, closely following the recent
ground-breaking of Digital Realty’s new data
centre in Seoul, Korea.
The Hong Kong facility will enable customers
to rapidly scale Digital Transformation
strategies by deploying critical infrastructure
with a leading global data centre provider at
the heart of a growing community of interest.
Digital Realty entered Hong Kong in 2012
with the acquisition of Digital TKO (HKG10),
located within the Tsueng Kwan O industrial
estate and capable of delivering up to 18
megawatts of critical IT capacity.
The new facility is strategically located in Kwai
Chung, Hong Kong’s rapidly developing new
data centre cluster and the primary auxiliary
location outside Tseung Kwan O, providing
the ability to cater to diverse, multi-site
workloads. Upon completion, the new, 21,000
square-metre building will deliver up to 24
megawatts of critical IT capacity.
The new data centre will support the
continued development of Hong Kong as a
key technology and data hub and drive the
adoption of cloud computing services and
solutions across the region. The facility is
expected to be built out and ready for global
and regional customers by mid-2021.
“Our investment in Hong Kong is another
important milestone on our global
platform roadmap, enabling customers’
Digital Transformation strategies while
demonstrating our commitment to
supporting their future growth on
PlatformDIGITAL,” said A. William Stein,
“Hong Kong is a regional leader in
cloud readiness and has significant
potential for further cloud adoption along
with a strong base of customers with an
appetite for digital technologies,” added
Mark Smith, Managing Director, Asia Pacific
for Digital Realty.
“We are delighted to launch our new facility,
which will go a long way towards meeting
the rapidly growing demand and bringing
value to customers across the region,
especially from China.”
Hong Kong is well placed among Asian cities
in terms of cloud readiness. The city claimed
the top spot in the recent Cloud Readiness
Index (CRI)1 based on cloud infrastructure,
security and regulation, according to the
Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA).
The index found that Hong Kong is
already a strong regional performer in
fundamental readiness areas such as cloud
regulation and infrastructure.
An opportunity exists for the city to
strengthen areas such as cloud governance
and security to spur broader and faster cloud
adoption, according to the study. •
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