Digital Realty arrives in Italy, 2 billion on information facilities | EUROtoday

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Double strategic acquisition to speed up progress in Italy with an funding plan value 2 billion euros, in Italy, for Digital Realty – US big of knowledge heart options carrier-neutral, colocation and interconnection, listed on the Nasdaq – which introduced its entry into the Milanese market (after that, in August, on the Roman “square”).

The funding in Milan «is just not an remoted operation – Alessandro Talotta, government managing director Italy of Digital Realty, defined to Il Sole 24Ore – however a part of a method that sees Italy on the heart of the infrastructure community of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Investments have already been made in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), France (Paris and Marseille), Greece (Athens and Heraklion, Crete). The aim is to create a digital axis connecting strategic hubs equivalent to Athens, Marseille and Sofia, integrating with ongoing initiatives in Barcelona and Crete. In this state of affairs, Italy turns into the pure bridge to the markets of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, providing the mandatory assist for the exponential progress of Cloud and Artificial Intelligence. Also as a result of right now, the 18 submarine cable touchdown programs that attain from Africa to Sicily then divert in direction of Marseille”.

Digital Realty has completed the acquisition of two plots of land in Abbiategrasso, south-west of Milan, just one kilometer away from each other. Strategically along the submarine connections corridor, which connects Milan to Genoa and Savona, the site will guarantee access to a diversified and resilient terrestrial fiber optic infrastructure network.

The project will start with a first phase of 8 megawatts, mainly dedicated to energy services colocation retail and interconnection. Operation is scheduled for 2028. But it is only the beginning: to satisfy the increasingly high demand linked to large enterprise projects, the expansion of the main site has already been planned, which will allow it to reach a total power of 84 megawatts.

«With this operation – added Paula Cogan, managing director EMEA of Digital Realty – we are making the strategic infrastructure available to consolidate Milan as a reference digital hub». The expansion into Milan comes alongside the ROM1 project, less than 15 kilometers from the coast in the Trigoria area, which will offer, in its initial phase, over 3 megawatts of installed IT capacity. The site extends over an area of ​​22 hectares – approximately 220 thousand m2 – and envisages subsequent development phases. Currently under construction and ready to debut at the beginning of 2027. «On the energy front – explains Talotta – we are aiming for green energy. 30-40% of our investments are dedicated to new areas of renewable plants.”