Chorus invests in datacentres to lift ‘non-regulated revenue’

Chorus invests in datacentres to lift ‘non-regulated revenue’
Chorus' Mohammad Hadi and Joe Caccioppoli flank Vertiv's Mark Langford at the newly upgraded Mt Eden Edgecentre. (Image: Vertiv)
Ben Moore
Of the 600 old telephone exchange buildings scattered around New Zealand, about 70 are fit to host racks of hard drives and servers that could be a boon to Chorus’ bottom line.Since 2015, Chorus has invested several million dollars into the infrastructure for what it calls EdgeCentre Colocation; that is, small and geographically dispersed datacentres that customers can rent space within for data storage and compute needs.The company has been working with US datacentre provider Vertiv to build and deploy the racks to maximise the unus...

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