Global Switch said it has signed a commitment agreement with IBM for the preletting of technical space within its new data centre development at Clichy in Paris.
Global Switch said it has signed a commitment agreement with IBM for the preletting of technical space within its new data centre development at Clichy in Paris.
The agreement relating to several floors at the facility follows the awarding of the Building Permit and Environmental Permit (ICPE) to the project over the last month.
The new facility (Paris 2) will be built on an adjacent site to the existing Global Switch facility in Paris. The data centre specialist said the addition of the second centre will create the city's leading data centre campus with in excess of 50,000 m2 of space.
Paris 2 will have an area of 17,000 m2 over six floors and will be designed with a base power density of 1.5kW/m2. It will have the flexibility to be adapted for high density environments if required.
Construction is scheduled to take 19 months and the facility is expected to become fully operational during 2011.
John Corcoran, Global Switch's executive chairman, said IBM is now Global Switch' s largest customer by revenue and is a major occupier of the firm's facilities in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris and Sydney. 'We are working closely with a number of other existing and prospective customers and expect to be in a position to announce further news of new facilities and contracts in Europe and Asia Pacific in the near future,' he added.
