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Equinix opens first AI-ready data center in Chennai
Equinix, Inc., the world’ s digital infrastructure company, is accelerating India’ s digital evolution and expanding its AI ecosystem with the opening of its first International Business Exchange( IBX) data center in Chennai, CN1.
Located in Siruseri on a nearly six-acre plot of land, this new facility will be interconnected with Equinix’ s Mumbai campus, which consists of three IBX data centers, to support business digitization and resilience, as well as AI development in India.
As Tamil Nadu strengthens its position as a key hub for innovation, research and AI investment, Chennai is emerging as the country’ s focal point for this technological evolution, paving the way for India to increase its global competitiveness in digital services and AI development.
Manoj Paul, Managing Director, India, Equinix, said,“ We are delighted to announce the launch of our state-of-the-art IBX data center, CN1, in Chennai, marking Equinix’ s expansion in India and a pivotal step in advancing the nation’ s digitalization journey. Our success in building the most interconnected ecosystem for cloud, carrier, content and enterprises in Mumbai will now be extended to customers in Tamil Nadu. Similarly, global enterprises planning to come closer to their customers in southern India now can leverage Equinix’ s IBX facility in Chennai.”
With an initial investment of $ 69 million to provide 800 cabinets of capacity, this state-of-the-art facility will eventually support 4,250 cabinets. The data center is engineered for a high reliability of 99.999 % uptime and features a full suite of Equinix interconnection services, including Equinix Fabric, which enables enterprises to leverage the full benefits of hybrid multicloud services.
Vection secures US $ 22m defence deal with NATO-approved partner
Australlia’ s Vection Technologies has signed a US $ 22.3 million multi-year master framework agreement with a repeat NATOapproved partner operating in the European defence sector, scalable to US $ 29.5m under the same conditions.
With this deal, Vection’ s Defence Program now totals US $ 40m, including US $ 17.7m of signed contracts and US $ 10.3m already delivered, as previously disclosed to the ASX. It builds on announcements made on 30 June, 15 July and 29 July 2025.
The contract will be delivered from Vection’ s existing resources with no additional capital outlay. The partner supports major European defence integrators and solution providers as a certified vendor to the Council of Europe and NATO. The Framework extends existing supplies and allows for new extensions through December 2030.
The repeat award deepens Vection’ s role inside the authorised NATO Tempest production chain, with demand accelerating for AI-powered monitoring solutions that safeguard national perimeters through big-data analysis. The solution stack combines secure ICT infrastructure with Vection’ s technologies, enabling expanded oversight of critical assets.
Having completed the stack during last year’ s pilot phase, Vection is now accelerating supply to align with the customer’ s multi-year program to 2030. The Framework provides visibility of structured order flow and sets Vection’ s largest-ever agreement, adding US $ 22.3m of revenue potential( up to US $ 29.5m) on top of prior orders.
Managing Director Gianmarco Biagi said:“ This Framework strengthens our long-standing relationship with a trusted European partner and expands Vection’ s role in the defence sector. It provides a clear path through 2030, with further significant orders expected.” p
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