Located in San Antonio, Texas, the facility is being built on a 33-acre-site in Westover Hills, an area Stream Realty calls "the premier corporate office park in San Antonio" and is expected to be completed by February 2009.

The 150,000 square foot data center building will have eight-inch thick concrete walls and a 24-inch thick concrete roof system designed to withstand 175 mph winds. The building is expandable to 350,000 square feet and is pre-approved by the city for all necessary data center improvements, says the company.

Stream Realty says the data center will have two, 10 megawatt utility feeds, expandable to 30 megawatts each with the primary feed coming from the recently announced 200 megawatt Westover Hills substation located immediately adjacent to the site. The second feed will come from a 200 megawatt substation located 1.5 miles from the site. The LEED directed development will provide access to "gray" or recycled water and multiple fiber optic providers.

San Antonio has become a hotbed for corporate data center developments over the past 24 months with major data center announcements coming from six major companies, including a $500 million data center project announced by software giant Microsoft to support its Office Live services, according to reports by Data Center Knowledge.

Reasons for San Antonio's explosive data center growth include a safe, central US location, low risk of natural disasters, new reliable infrastructure, excellent connectivity, and inexpensive electricity. At sub $.05 per KWH, San Antonio's electricity costs also rank among the lowest of major US cities, says the company.

Earlier this year in February, Stream Realty built its first ready-to-fit data center in Plano's Legacy Business Park in Texas. The 150,000 square foot facility was reportedly purchased by Research in Motion in June.

Stream Realty says it has been a leading national investor and developer of data centers for more than 10 years and during that time has dealt with more than one million square feet of data center space in Texas and California. The company currently leases or manages over 45 million square feet of commercial buildings in Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth.