“Dutch data centers focus umbrella trade association”

Twenty Dutch data centres have united in the stichting Dutch Datacenter Association. The companies do this in a single batch of forms, for example, negotiations with the government.

The foundation was founded by, among others, BT, BIT, Equinix, Eurofiber, EvoSwitch, KPN, Interconnect, TelecityGroup, The Datacenter Group and TCN. At the beginning of this year would be more companies to join in addition to the twenty founders. According to the DDA is the datacentersector fast-growing, and the Netherlands has internationally a spilpositie.

The foundation was established to encourage interactions between participants, market players, government, interest groups and platforms. The DDA acts include as onderhandelingspartij, for example, with the government. In addition, the foundation for the sector and promote projects in the field of environment, society and education’ to stimulate. According to the director of the foundation, Stijn Grove, there was “a call to be of one clearly visible representation from the datacentersector”. There were already associations for hosters and internet service providers.