Japan’s NTT Communications sees HK$4 billion data centre plan as shot in arm for Hong Kong’s status as global financial hub
‘We believe that makes us the biggest data centre services provider in Hong Kong,’ company says.
NTT Communications, the information technology services arm of telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, expects to help reinforce Hong Kong’s role as a global financial hub with the completion of its HK$4-billion data centre expansion in the city’s Tseung Kwan O industrial estate.
Tetsuya Shoji, the president and chief executive at NTT Communications, said at the launch on Wednesday that the company’s data centre complex in that area was built “to address the acute demand of enterprises’ digital transformation” as well as “cope with the rampant growth of mobility, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data” developments.
In this digital age, when everything goes online, the role of data centres has never been more important.
Tokyo-based NTT Communications, which also operates data centres in Kwai Chung and Tai Po, started its expansion programme in Tseung Kwan O in 2011 and opened the first phase of its operations there in 2013.
With the second phase completed, the company’s data centre complex represents the largest and most advanced such facility established by parent telecommunications network operator NTT outside of Japan.
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It is also the ninth data centre opened this year by NTT Communications, which has a network of more than 140 such facilities around the world.