Equinix opens new data center in Los Angeles area

Equipment rack inside an Equinix facility

International colocation data center provider Equinix opened a new facility in the Los Angeles, Calif., area. The facility is located in El Segundo – a suburb of Los Angeles – near the company’s existing LA3 data center. The opening brings the number of Equinix data centers in the region to four. Its two other facilities are in downtown Los Angeles.

First phase of the new International Business Exchange center was designed to accommodate 800 equipment cabinets and 10,000 square feet of office space, according to a company statement. Equinix invested $95 million into building the first phase. The facility will be able to support a total of about 3,000 cabinets at full build out.

LA4 is directly connected to the other three Equinix data centers in the area by the company’s IBXLink service. It provides redundant fiber links, enabling connectivity among customers in all four facilities and providing access to more than 60 carriers and network service providers that operate in those data centers.

Equinix opened the new facility as part of an ongoing expansion program that started in 2007. The company is planning to have invested more than $1 billion into expanding data center footprint in 10 out of 18 markets it operates in by the end of 2009.

Last month, Equinix announced an acquisition of a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany, and an expansion of one of its existing New York City facilities. The Frankfurt data center will have a capacity to house up to 3,300 cabinet equivalents and the final expansion phase of NY4 made the data center capable of accommodating 4,050 cabinet equivalents.

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