Intelligent Data Centres Issue 29 | Page 26

PROJECT FOCUS
1 . BRAZIL
Brazilian data centre company , Odata Brasil , has announced detailed expansion plans for its operations in São Paulo and Rio . The company is planning to expand two existing campuses and develop up to three more campuses in Brazil . It is also considering potential expansions elsewhere in Latin America as it seeks to expand its market share in the region . The company said it has started expansion work at its SP02 facility in Sao Paulo and is due to start expanding its SP01 campus soon .

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2 . SINGAPORE
Equinix has announced agreements for additional joint ventures in the form of limited liability partnerships with GIC , Singapore ’ s sovereign wealth fund , which when closed and built out will bring the xScale data centre portfolio to greater than US $ 6.9 billion across 32 facilities globally . xScale data centres add to Equinix ’ s global platform of more than 220 International Business Exchange ( IBX ) data centres by serving the unique core workload deployment needs of a targeted group of hyperscale companies , including the world ’ s largest cloud service providers .
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