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By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com
July 23, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation service provider CRG West (crgwest.com) announced on Monday it is building a new data center campus in Santa, Clara, California, expected to be available in the second quarter of 2009.
According to reports in Data Center Knowledge, this new project from CRG West adds to the evident data center growth seen in the Santa Clara area over the past year, with some of the industry's largest players, like Terremark and Digital Realty Trust as well as Internet giants like Facebook and Yahoo! recently announcing data center expansions in this market.
CRG West says the three-building, 350,000 square foot facility it has planned out will be a "best-in-class, energy-efficient data center" and office space. Services offered out of this campus will include data center and peering solutions, from single-cabinet colocation space through custom-built cages of any size up to blocks of wholesale data center space up to 20MW.
Indicative of its efforts to offer customization for its customers, CRG West says it is also interested in constructing one of the planned buildings to meet the exact specifications of a single user for any corporation that wishes to design its data center but lease it rather than fund the up-front capital required to construct it.
The campus' fiber-rich location in Santa Clara ensures robust connectivity options to major points of peering, including CRG West's existing two facilities in the Bay area. CRG West will deploy its open peering exchange, the Any2 Exchange, to the campus, enabling tenants to access over 140 networks on one of the nation's largest and most cost-effective peering exchanges, says the company.
"Our latest project in Santa Clara leverages off of the peering density and operational capability we have developed in our two current locations in the market," says Thomas Ray, president and CEO of CRG West. "Our expansion with this additional campus further solidifies our organization as a premier provider of world-class data centers and peering opportunities throughout the United States. Further, the scale inherent in this campus enables us to execute upon our commitment to provide a full range of data center and peering solutions to our customers."
It is believed CRG West now operates more than two million square feet of carrier hotel and data center space in eleven data center locations including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington DC.
The past two years has seen a gradual increase in the company's national footprint of data center and carrier hotel properties, as well as building its meet-me-room and interconnection business.
In April, CRG West expanded both power and space at its Boston data center.
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