If anyone is looking for a couple million square feet of new data center space, I’m your guy.
A couple of weeks back I wrote a Blog entitled Managed Hosting and Colocation in 2009 and Beyond. My basic thesis was based on these factors: (1)- There is a widening gap between required additional space today and the shortfall of new data space being built and (2) The real estate debacle will move a lot of banks (the ones that are left) to the sidelines as they cannot see the trees from the woods in order to fund your data center expansions.
As luck would have it, that blog got a fair amount of play in the national commercial real-estate community. As such RE professionals have come to my assistance with some, in what they consider, are excellent data centers. Just two examples:
Kansas – 135,000 sq ft – Excellent Parking – Cable TV and telephone service available. 100,000 sq ft of contiguous concrete floor with 30-foot ceilings, excellent for warehouse or data space. Building insulated. Immediately available.
Georgia – 60,000 sq. ft. – Can be divided into 10 strip mall units each with its own HAVC and electric meter.
This real estate trend also occurred about 8 years ago. All commercial property that could not be sold became data centers.
As there are a lot of properties available, the bright side is that certain ones may actually be candidates for an eventual data-center, at a good base price.
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