Customers are seeking new locations to keep their data in proximity to points of consumption and as a part of this evolution, our enterprise and service provider customers have a strong desire to interconnect at the digital edge in Mexico," said Jon Lin, president of the Americas at Equinix (pictured), who was appointed in June 2019. Lin adds more context on the deal in an Equinix blog post you can find here. "The three Axtel data centres that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metros provide an optimal market entry for Equinix to bolster operations in the region and facilitate even greater interconnection within the Americas region and between the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe." The three data centres will add approximately 115,000 sq ft of colocation space to the Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre portfolio. Given the power capacity of these three sites, this transaction will make Equinix one of the largest network-neutral data centre operators in Mexico.