Penta Infra and Photon Capital have today shared the news of the acquisition of the newly-built Nexus data centre campus in Brussels, from developer Ghelamco.
Penta Infra is a core and edge colocation provider, which provides flexible, sustainable, carrier-neutral and compliant colocation across its European data centres, which are based in edge locations including Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Copenhagen and more.
Photon Capital is a specialised lead investor, based in Amsterdam, which puts its capital to work in digital infrastructure across Europe, by investing in high quality data centre assets.
Real estate investor and developer Ghelamco works across Belgium, Poland, the UK, France, Ukraine and Russia. The company is dedicated to developing more sustainable ways to complete its projects and meet the highest ecological standards across its portfolio.
The nine-storey Nexus data centre was designed with the collaboration of anchor tenants the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Free University of Brussels) and the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels (Brussels University Hospital). Based in the Green Energy Park in Zellik, Brussels, it has 7.2 MW of IT load, based on a 12.5 MVA renewable power feed. The 10,000 sqm data centre offers medium, high and extreme power-density modules. It will also be used to house the VSC Flemish Supercomputer, a high-performance computing infrastructure, which supports scientific research in a collaborative effort alongside Flemish universities and research institutions.
