July 17, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Lifeline Data Centers (lifelinedatacenters.com), a company that provides outsourced data center facilities and services, announced on Tuesday it has begun construction on its new data center and office facility at the former Eastgate Consumer Mall in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The company, in partnership with Marvin Slomowitz, president of Mark Development, says it is investing $50 million to transform the 40-acre, former retail mall into 450,000 square feet of data center space supported by 200,000 square feet of office space.
Lifeline says Indianapolis offers a central geographic location, some of the lowest power rates in the nation, a favorable construction climate and the most affordable housing in the top fifty markets.
The Midwest in general has become a hotbed of activity for data center developments in recent years, with its cheap land and warm climate.
Last month, Data Cave announced it is building a data center in Columbus, Indiana while the Bank of America plans to spend approximately $90 million dollars to expand its data center in Platte County, Kansas City.
Lifeline says the first 60,000 square feet of data center space will be available by the fourth quarter and the remaining mall space will be refit as customized office space and staging/storage facilities.
Lifeline will then build an undisclosed number of free-standing tornado resistant-buildings to bring the total data center space to 450,000 square feet, says the company. All data center facilities are built to the Uptime Institute Hybrid Tier IV and TIA-942 specifications.
"The Eastgate facility is designed to house primary or secondary computer room space for large and small companies from all over the nation," says Alex Carroll, co-owner of Lifeline. "The Eastgate facility provides additional infrastructure that makes Indianapolis more attractive to companies looking to relocate their business."
Citing a recent study by Trinity Information Systems, Lifeline says half of all companies will relocate or outsource some of their data centers or computer applications in the next five years.
Meanwhile, American Power Conversion believes that in the next five years, 90 percent of all companies will experience at least one interruption in computer operations because of power limitations, power faults, or power availability.
