Data services company nLighten has taken over seven edge data centers from sister company EXA Infrastructure.
The deal expands nLighten's European facilities to Belgium, Switzerland and Spain, while adding sites in markets where the company already has a presence: Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
This brings the company's total number of edge data centers in Europe to 34, including sites in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Madrid, Geneva, Zurich and Ghent.
“By expanding our European operating base, nLighten customers will benefit from nLighten's diverse portfolio, including a broad range of colocation, connectivity and on-site services,” said Harro Beusker, co-founder and CEO of nLighten.
“This acquisition underlines nLighten's commitment to empowering businesses across Europe with world-class data center solutions and brings us closer to our goal of building and operating a cutting-edge European data center platform.”
Meanwhile, EXA Infrastructure, like I Squared Capital-owned nLighten, will now focus on its own terrestrial and subsea fiber network and further investing in infrastructure.
“This is the start of an exciting collaboration with our sister company, nLighten, as we each focus on our core competencies to better deliver on our missions,” said Nick Collins, Chief Commercial Officer at EXA Infrastructure.
“The sale allows EXA Infrastructure to focus exclusively on building and operating the mission-critical network infrastructure that enables our customers' growth.”
The company recently launched its sixth transatlantic cable with the addition of Amitié, connecting Boston in the US, Slough in the UK and Bordeaux, from where connectivity can be provided to any location on the Exa-owned network.
Founded in 2021, nLighten acquired ten data centers in Germany from Exa Infrastructure last year, following which it made a series of acquisitions.
Last summer, it acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers in Sophia Antipolis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon and Paris.
Shortly after, it expanded into the UK with the acquisition of Proximity Data Centres, a regional platform with ten carrier-neutral edge data centers in Birmingham, Bridgend, Bristol, Chester, Leeds, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Rugby and Swindon .
And in November it acquired GYROCenter, a high-performance data center in Amsterdam.
The company said it can now provide its customers with a new level of support across Europe, thanks to a network that ensures low-latency data processing and geographically distributed deployments for business continuity and scalability regardless of customer-specific applications. customers.
“The digital landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, particularly as demand for artificial intelligence continues to increase across industries,” Beusker said. “This dynamic landscape offers many opportunities for digital infrastructure, but also requires robust and scalable data center solutions.”
