Telecom Italia (TIM) is to develop a new data center outside Rome, Italy.
Announced this week, the company aims to invest €130 million ($135m) in the facility to “grow TIM Enterprise in the cloud.”
The 25MW data center will be operational by the end of 2026.
“Today we are announcing an important investment that confirms us as a leader in Italy in cloud, demonstrating that we are a company that innovates for the country, from the PA to businesses, to accelerate the pace towards the digital transition,” said Elio Schiavo, chief enterprise and innovative solutions officer.
Including its Noovle data center and cloud unit, TIM Enterprise currently has 16 data centers across Italy; the company said the new facility will take the group’s total capacity to 125MW.
The data center will be connected to TIM's ultra-high-speed photonic network and host GPU hardware for AI applications and quantum cryptography equipment for maximum security in data transmission.
The site will be equipped with a rainwater recovery system.
TIM acquired Noovle in May 2020, and relaunched the company in January 2021 after previously announcing it was to spin off its data center unit.
TIM’s other data center subsidiary Sparkle also operates four facilities in Greece – three in Athens and one in Chania – as well as data centers or landing hubs in Sicily and Genoa, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Panama.
