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Following a US $ 200 million investment in 2020 in the Washington DC area , Equinix has opened a new data center enabling businesses to grow at scale and speed .

Equinix invests US $ 200 million in Washington DC area data center expansions

Equinix has announced further

expansion in the Washington DC area with the opening of its 16th International Business Exchange ( IBX ) data center , DC21 . With the addition of DC21 , as well as the opening of the DC15 data center earlier this year , Equinix has invested more than US $ 200 million in the Washington DC area in 2020 , as the area remains one of the most highly interconnected regions powering the global digital economy .
The new facilities strengthen Equinix ’ s position as a leading digital infrastructure and service provider in the Washington DC metro area offering businesses , as well as multinationals , increased opportunities to leverage a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure to power their success .
Equinix ’ s newest Washington DC area data centers are part of Equinix ’ s data center campus in Ashburn , VA , home to the largest Internet peering point in North America and one of the largest in the world – a strategic communications hub for the eastern US and a major gateway to Europe . The expansion of its Ashburn Campus will provide Equinix additional capacity to respond to accelerating customer demand within the rapidly growing enterprise , government , cloud and financial services industries .
The Washington DC area is one of four markets that includes Equinix Metal , a new , fully automated and interconnected bare metal service launched in October . With this new service , companies have the option to deploy the physical infrastructure of their choice at software speed across Equinix ’ s trusted platform .
Together with other digital infrastructure building blocks in the Equinix portfolio , customers now have a broad range of physical and virtual deployment alternatives to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect to everything they need to succeed .
The expansion of the Equinix Ashburn Campus also includes a Co-Innovation Facility ( CIF ) where leading technology
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