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USA tenant data centre in the region .
“ Columbus is a fibre crossroads , where networks come together ,” says van Rooyen . “ Columbus 3 will not only be the most connected facility in Ohio , but will also enable the lowest latency onramp to Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) Direct Connect .”
AWS Direct Connect enables customers to connect their infrastructure via a secure and private connection to the AWS Cloud to improve performance and reduce costs compared to onramps via the public Internet . Columbus 3 is earmarked
Cologix Data Center Power - New Jersey Data Center
for construction completion by December later this year .
The facility sits on the same 8 acre campus as both of Cologix ’ s existing data centres , Columbus 1 and Columbus 2 . Cologix purchased the land next to these facilities in order to create a campus that could provide scalability to the
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