Developer and industrial real estate operator GLP has launched a global data centre business to address the rising demand for hyperscale data centres.
The platform, to be known as Ada Infrastructure, has been launched with 850MW of secured IT capacity across Japan, the UK and Brazil, and nearly 1.5GW of total future capacity.
Former Microsoft executive Jennifer Weitzel will lead GLP’s data centres arm as president. She will be joined by a team of experts from across the industry, charged with supporting the growth of cloud services and artificial intelligence.
Ming Mei, co-founder and chief executive at GLP, said: “Data centres play a critical role in making the modern world run more efficiently and are where some of the world’s challenges are being solved.
“Scientific discoveries, medical advancements, communication systems, new and more accessible financial services, global commerce and now the AI revolution are all made possible within data centres.”
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