Aruba SpA has launched a new data center campus in Rome, Italy.
The Italian data center firm this week officially inaugurated the Hyper Cloud Data Centre, its new data center campus in the capital.
Located in the Tecnopolo Tiburtino area of East Rome, the first data center at the campus is now officially active, with the second nearing completion and due to open in the first half of 2025.
The campus extends over an area of 74,000 sqm (796,530 sq ft), with 52,000 sqm (559,725 sq ft) of surface area dedicated to data centers, of which over 30,000 sqm (322,915 sq ft) is made up of data rooms.
At full build-out, the campus will feature five data centers totaling 30MW of IT power. More than €300 million ($331m) has been invested in the campus.
“The activation of the Hyper Cloud data center in Rome allows us to significantly increase the space and power capacity available to our customers in response to the rapid growth in consumption expected from the development of cloud and technologies such as artificial intelligence,” said Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba. “By choosing Rome as the home of the campus we have strengthened the geographical coverage of our network and the location also supports the growing role of the capital as a strategic technology hub in Italy, balancing out the concentration in the Milan area.”
The Rome project has been in development for several years. The facility was first announced in mid-2018 and was expected to be completed by Spring 2020, before the company moved the planned go-live date to Q1 2023.
Founded in 1994, Aruba’s Bergamo campus outside Milan features three data center buildings. The company also operates two facilities in Arezzo and has one under development in Rome, with another facility in Ktiš in Czechia/Czech Republic.
