65 off 24 of its data centres , selling them to Equinix for $ 3.6b . In May 2019 , Telefonica SA agreed to sell 11 data centres to Asterion Industrial Partners for $ 600mn . Just this year , Equinix bought another 13 data centres from Bell Canada for $ 750mn . AT & T , after an eight year battle to build a sizable data centre empire , sold the lot to Brookfield Infrastructure and a consortium of its partners for $ 1.1bn . The great divestiture is not just constrained to European and North American markets . In July , Australian telecom leader Telstra announced that it ’ s selling its $ 276mn flagship data centre campus in Melbourne . In October of last year , Mexican telco Axtel sold three of its relatively new data centres to - you guessed it - Equinix for $ 175mn . The list of sales goes on . And on . So what happened ? A decade ago , telecoms and data centres were predicted to be inextricably linked in just a few years . Colocation has only grown more popular , with the data centre colocation market size expected to grow from $ 31.5bn in
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