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Digital infrastructure firm Equinix has announced plans to expand into Jakarta, Indonesia with a $74 million International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre. Through this expansion, Equinix will enable Indonesian businesses, as well as multinationals with a presence in Indonesia, to leverage its trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure to power their businesses.

Driven by rapid business digitalisation and a substantial digital-savvy population, Indonesia has emerged as Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy in value and is expected to be a key hub of interconnection in the region. With major cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud, launching cloud regions in Indonesia, the country is forecast to become the second largest public cloud market in Southeast Asia. These trends collectively raise the need for increased digital services and data centre services capacity in Indonesia.

Jeremy Deutsch, president of Asia-Pacific for Equinix, said: “Our IBX data centre in Jakarta will add a strategically important, high-growth market to Equinix’s extensive network of interconnected data centres across the world. Having a presence in Indonesia allows Equinix to provide digital infrastructure that enables local businesses to tap growth opportunities abroad and support global organisations looking to access the expanding Indonesian digital economy. We look forward to working closely with local authorities, network providers and the broader industry ecosystem players to help unleash Indonesia’s digital potential.”

The eight-story facility is scheduled to open by the second half of 2024, expected to provide more than 1,600 cabinets and more than 5,300 square meters of colocation space when fully built. Located in Jakarta’s Central Business District and near major internet exchanges, the new IBX data centre will provide Indonesian businesses and foreign businesses operating in Indonesia with the digital infrastructure and vibrant ecosystems for optimal performance.
The facility will incorporate sustainability into its design, leveraging innovative technologies such as cool array to support economic and environmental goals for organisations in Indonesia.

Equinix’s expansion to Jakarta is aligned with the Indonesian government’s digital transformation initiatives, boosting the country’s digital infrastructure objectives according to goals set out in the Indonesia Digital Roadmap 2021–2024.

Platform Equinix currently spans 32 countries around the world, and this new data centre in Jakarta will serve as a business conduit for local and global enterprises, cloud & IT service providers and network service providers.

Inclusive of this recent announcement, Equinix has 50 major projects that are currently underway across 35 metros in 22 countries, including new data centre builds in Dublin, Montréal, New York, Paris, and Warsaw. Most recently, Equinix entered Chile and Peru with a total of five IBX data centres, with an enterprise value estimated at approximately $735 million. The company has also completed its acquisition of West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider MainOne for an enterprise value of $320 million.

In Asia-Pacific, Equinix announced an initial investment of over $86 million to build Equinix’s third IBX data center in Mumbai and an investment of over $64 million for its first IBX data center in Chennai.

Today, the global footprint of Platform Equinix spans 248 data centers across 71 metros and 32 countries, providing digital infrastructure for more than 10,000 of the world’s leading businesses, including more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies. In Asia-Pacific, Equinix currently has 51 data centers in key metros across Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.