With the opening of the new Hyper Cloud Data Centre, Rome becomes a decisive pole to push forward the digitalisation of Italy. The inauguration by Aruba of the Data Centre Campus located in the area of Tecnopolo Tiburtino (Roma Est) seals the central role that the capital of the country will share together with Milan, the first financial centre in Italy.

Built-in a strategic location home to more than 150 innovative companies, the Hyper Cloud is the first data centre on the campus. The second should be activated within the first half of next year. With an extension of 74,000 m², of which 52,000 m² will be allocated to the five data centres and 30,000 m² dedicated to the data rooms, for a total of 30 MW of IT power, Aruba strengthens its infrastructure and reinforces its presence in the country.

An expanding infrastructure

The campus will be the place that will bring together data, infrastructures and systems of companies of all sizes, from hyperscalers to the Public Administration, up to large international players. Grand ambitions also exist because the Roman project envisages investments of more than €300 million, and it adds to the network of the Aruba Group, which includes the Global Cloud Data Centre in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) and the two data centres in Arezzo.

Each module includes the Data Centre, the Power Centre with the power supply units for the data rooms, the Logistics Centre that houses the Cooling Centre water/water heat exchangers, the loading docks and some storage spaces, and the Backup Area with the generators.

The idea for the Rome campus is to encourage the development of interconnections between the companies that will choose the Aruba space to benefit the entire ecosystem. The formula aims to attract many realities, not only Italian, to transform the city into a centre for providing IT and cloud services in the country. This ambition is possible thanks to the Aruba offer, which ranges from customised colocation solutions to portions of racks with entire dedicated rooms, private cages, and cross-connections. In addition to this, there are the Aruba Enterprise services, including Trust, Cloud and Managed, which guarantee business continuity and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions. For energy consumption, there are also state-of-the-art photovoltaic systems and high-efficiency cooling systems for efficient and sustainable management.

Accelerating the country’s digitisation

Such an asset is not only an advantage for customers in terms of space and power, but it is also a concrete act to respond to the growth in consumption expected with the development of the cloud and technologies such as GenAI.

Aruba’s choice to create a digital hub destined to emerge as a reference for Central and Southern Italy is what the country needs to catch up digitally with other Western European countries. It is the company founded in 1994, which for years has been the leading Italian provider of cloud services, data centres, hosting, e-mail, domain registration and PEC, with 16 million users and infrastructure with 7 data centres that are taking the step is significant and promising for the future. Provided that other national and international companies can bet on Italy.