Equinix has opened its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Chennai, India.
Located in Siruseri on a nearly six-acre site, the facility, named CN1, will be interconnected with Equinix’s Mumbai campus.
The campus consists of three IBX data centres.
The expansion aims to support business digitisation, resilience, and AI development in India.
Phase one of CN1 delivers 800 cabinets with an initial investment of $69 million.
The four-storey site will eventually support 4,250 cabinets.
It is designed with a fault-tolerant architecture offering 99.999 percent uptime and readiness for liquid cooling to handle high-density, compute-intensive workloads.
The facility will provide Equinix interconnection services including Equinix Fabric and Fabric Cloud Router, enabling enterprises to build hybrid multicloud infrastructure.
Customers in Chennai will also gain low-latency access to cloud service providers and partners hosted at the Mumbai campus, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
The location sits near anticipated submarine cable landing sites, around 28 km from the Central Business District.
Equinix currently hosts over 300 companies in India, including network service providers and five internet exchanges.
Globally, the company operates over 270 data centres across 77 markets in 36 countries, with over 60 sites in Asia-Pacific.
