Maskell explains . “ We ’ ve just added 15 MW ready for service at our MTL10-H Longueil campus , and acquired an adjacent building to this campus to respond quickly to strong customer demand in the market . Additionally , we began engineering the utility for our MTL8-H Technoparc campus , which will offer 36MW .”
The Ashburn project , which will be built on a plot of land at the core of Data Center Alley , will be something of a special project for Cologix . “ We ’ re looking to build a 100MW hyperscale data centre ,” says Maskell . Currently , for most companies that aren ’ t Google or Amazon Web Services , a 100MW data centre is a rare thing . Maskell sees the project as an embodiment of Cologix ’ s ongoing growth strategy . “ It not only strengthens our commitment to the hyperscale market and the business that ’ s out there , but I think it ’ s a sign of demand for space that ’ s growing with it ,” he says .
Looking to the future , Maskell doesn ’ t see the pace of data centre evolution slowing any time soon , and is confident Cologix has the right mixture of infrastructure and flexibility in order to re-
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