telecom italia sparkle: Chania Data Center

The Chania Data Center is located at Saridantoni Street 23, 73136 Chania, Crete, Greece, and is part of Sparkle / Telecom Italia Sparkle’s Mediterranean data center and submarine network infrastructure. 

As one of Sparkle’s four Greek facilities (the others in Athens: Koropi, Metamorfosis I & II), Chania plays a strategic role as a landing hub for submarine cables in the Eastern Mediterranean region.In 2024, Sparkle landed the BlueMed submarine cable at Chania, extending the connectivity of routes between Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. 

Because of this cable landing, Chania acts not only as a colocation facility but also as a gateway node bridging undersea and terrestrial network links with Sparkle’s own backbone.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Built (gross) space: 1,579 m²
• Power capacity: 0.8 MW
• Power redundancy: 2N design according to public listing 
• Cooling redundancy: N (with air cooling) 
• Raised-floor configuration with standard colocation layouts (racks, cabinets)
• Environmental parameters monitored: temperature and humidity with high availability targets (99.99 %) 
• Sparkle’s Greece data centers are powered via protected high-voltage supply and backed by redundant electrical systems across buildings 
• The facility is part of Sparkle’s interconnected fiber network across Greece, offering internal fiber paths between Greek data centers

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Sparkle’s Greek data centers, including Chania, are certified to ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO 14001, ISO 20000, and PCI-DSS 
• 24/7 onsite security personnel and technical team support
• Full campus video surveillance and access control systems across critical spaces
• Fire detection and gas-based extinguishing systems (automatic fire detection with gas suppression) 
• Strict environment monitoring and control with redundancy in critical systems

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral colocation environment: customers may interconnect with ISPs, content providers, and networks independent of Sparkle’s backbone. 
• Access to Sparkle’s Tier-1 global backbone (Seabone, MedNautilus, etc.) for international transit and routing 
• Dense submarine cable connectivity:
•  • BlueMed cable landed at Chania (2024), with multi-fiber pairs and multi-Tbps design capacity
•  • Existing cables already landed there include AAE-1, MedNautilus, SeaMeWe-3, and Silphium
• Integrated interconnection with Sparkle’s Mediterranean and national fiber network, linking Greek data centers and facilitating redundancy and route diversity 
• Connectivity speeds: from 1 Mbps up to 100 Gbps in the Sparkle network offering

💼 Who It Serves

• Enterprises, ISPs, content providers, and OTTs seeking reliable, secure, and globally connected facilities in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Network operators requiring direct access to submarine cable landing infrastructure and diversified routing via BlueMed and other cables
• Cloud providers and hyperscalers needing to distribute workloads across Mediterranean nodes
• Organizations with strict data compliance and security requirements (e.g. financial, healthcare, government)
• Businesses aiming to expand connectivity between Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia by leveraging the cable landing capability of Chania