Data Centre Magazine February 2021 | Page 22

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22 campus is now 26.5 MW . “ It ' s like expanding an airport , you try to build close to where you are : with all the infrastructure already there it makes sense to build your third runway alongside the others . Likewise if you have all the networks coming in and upward of 150 customers in your data centre it makes sense to build more capacity on that site . We have signed for another parcel of land where we are going to put another 15 MW of IT load , that equates to about 25 MW of grid power , so the power capacity just on that Moscow North campus will grow from about 26 to 50 MW .”
The final push will start early in 2021 with the acquisition of a site in the south of the city , a leap ahead for this fast growing company . Here he expects to end up with a further potential of 150 MW , which should be
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