Equinix’s Chennai data centre set to go live in Q4

Global digital infrastructure enterprise Equinix is set to open its first Chennai data centre in SIPCOT, Siruseri in the fourth quarter of this year.

With an initial investment of $65 million, the data centre called CN1 spreads over nearly 6 acres of land and will provide a total site capacity of 4,950 cabinets or power of around 25 megawatt when fully built. The first phase of CN1 will provide 850 cabinets.

“Chennai is a natural progression for us. CN1 will be connected to Equinix’s three existing data centres in Mumbai and is designed to support the needs of both enterprise customers and hyperscalers including AI deployments,” Manoj Paul, Managing Director, Equinix India, told businessline.