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Owning a datacentre is more difficult than ever, says Equinix boss

Tom Wright

30 May 2017 • 4 min read

EMEA president Eric Schwartz reveals what's driving the datacentre sell-offs seen over recent months

While the trend of buying or building datacentres seems to be reversing for IT and telecoms providers, one firm is gobbling them up left, right and centre. Five years ago these providers were ch...

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