Telecom carrier Axtel has launched another data center in the city of Querétaro, underscoring the growing demand for server space in Mexico.
The 38,750 square foot data center is the company’s sixth in the country and second in Querétaro.
Axtel says it has already invested more than US$25 million in the data center and would spend an additional $43 million over the coming months to expand the facility’s storage capacity.
The telecom firm was likely inspired by the success of its first Querétaro facility, which enjoyed over 90% occupancy. Axtel’s other data centers are in Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City.
This second facility in Queretaro is the first data center in Latin America with an energy co-generation system (ECS) and the first in Mexico with 3N redundancy and ICREA Level 5 Certification.
“This investment will allow us to continue consolidating our leading position in the data center market in Mexico,” said Axtel Infrastructure and Operations Executive Director Andrés Cordovez Ferretto.
The data center, according to local media reports, is made up of six “data halls”, each measuring 600 square meters.
The data center services market in Latin America generated US$2.87 billion in revenue in 2015, with Mexico accounting for more than 25% of the revenue, according to Frost and Sullivan. This revenue is expected to exceed $4 billion by 2021.
Another report from Gartner says that more and more organizations in the region would prefer to store their data in third party facilities rather than invest in building data centers on their own.
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