ETIX Everywhere, an IT service management company based in Thailand has acquired a 67 per cent stake in Genesis data centre.
This data center will form the basis of a new data center campus which will be jointly developed with its local partner Interlink Telecom. Further, this data centre is located in Bang Chalong, 30 kilometres from Bangkok’s historical centre.
The Genesis data centre, renamed ETIX Bangkok #1, is already live with 2.4 MW of IT power and the future development of the campus will offer significant additional capacity.
“We are very excited to announce our expansion into Asia starting with this acquisition in Bangkok, one of the most dynamic markets in the zone. This first step in Asia is a major milestone in ETIX’s strategy to support our global customers providing them our best-in-class colocation services wherever they need”. Louis Blanchot, Group CEO ETIX
This data centre campus is the first in the market offering such a high level of redundancy with 4 diverse routes for fiber access and power supply coming from 2 distinct substations. Nuttanai Anuntarumporn, CEO of Interlink Telecom PLC said: “We are very pleased to have a strong partner like ETIX Everywhere with experience in this industry. We believe that our partnership will support the booming Southeast Asia data center and cloud industry and lead us to common success.”
With a large population and a strong internet penetration, Thailand is an important growth market for the public cloud and OTT service providers. They need to bring their data as close as possible to the end users in order to deliver a better service which will drive demand for colocation services.
“Our customers are world leading cloud and content service providers; they have very strict colocation requirement, and it has been difficult for them to find a data center that can match with their standards in Thailand with enough capacity for expansion. We are very proud to finally offer them an answer to their needs. ETIX Everywhere has a big ambitions in Southeast Asia, first with this campus in Bangkok, and we are also very active in data center opportunities in Vietnam and the Philippines.” Pierre Patris, CEO Asia of ETIX Everywhere.
Etix Everywhere was acquired by hyperscale company Vantage Data Centers in early 2020.
Robust growth
The data centre market in Thailand is expected to see robust growth owing to the boom in the digital economy, supported by the government’s exciting Industry 4.0 transformation plan. Recently, UK-based colocation provider Telehouse is expanding its footprint in the Southeast Asian market, with plans to open a new data centre facility in Bangkok.
In 2021, Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, said that plans to set up a new data centre in Thailand to assist local enterprises in their digital innovation journey. The data centres will serve as intelligence backbones to support the nations’ digital economies, and businesses on their journey to transform and innovate.
Similarly, data centre service provider ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Thailand) has announced the official opening of STT Bangkok 1. This will be the first carrier-neutral hyperscale data centre in Bangkok built to global standards.With a large population and a strong internet penetration, Thailand is an important growth market for the public cloud and OTT service providers. They need to bring their data as close as possible to the end-users in order to deliver a better service which will drive demand for colocation services.
