Wikipedia out of Equinix Ashburn in 2011

from Web Host Industry Review:

>>Q&A: Jay Walsh, spokesperson for Wikimedia

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- As a non-profit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation (www.wikimedia.org) has relied on the donations of individuals and groups to maintain the popular Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), and its other sites.

WHIR: What makes Virginia an ideal location to build the second US data center?

JW: Wikimedia Foundation projects are important to hundreds of millions of people now, and they deserve to be hosted in the best possible way. Most of the top 10 websites in the world host at least part of their traffic out of Ashburn, Virginia because of the Equinix facility and their superior interconnectivity options. When we were visiting around in June we saw cages populated by very well known and high-traffic entities, which made us feel right at home.

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We hope to bring the new data center online by January 1st, 2011.