Twitch livestreaming game site improves video quality in Europe with new French servers

Twitch has the cash, and it’s spending it on making its service work better in Europe.

The livestreaming company revealed that it has added a “point of presence” to Paris, France. This includes a new cluster of servers that will improve the quality of the company’s gamer-broadcasted videos to viewers throughout Western Europe. This is in addition to a bank of servers in Prague of the Czech Republic that Twitch added in December. The site has 45 million monthly unique viewers, which puts a huge strain on its system. It is also the fourth most-trafficked network in the U.S. during peak hours — it trails only Netflix, Google, and Apple.