An artist rendering of CyrusOne's data center in West Houston
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider CyrusOne announced on Thursday it has acquired a 30-acre parcel of land north of Dallas to build a 700,000 square foot data center. CyrusOne expects the data center to have close to 400,000 square feet of raised floor data center space to provide customers with about 60,000 square feet of class A office space once completed.
This news comes less than two weeks after CyrusOne announced its plans to build a data center in San Antonio’s Westover Hills business park.
CyrusOne has focused its expansion efforts in the Texas market, a state known for its competitive web hosting and data center landscape. Once its Texas expansion is completed, it will be the only provider with data centers in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. In November, CyrusOne acquired a 175,000 square foot data center in Houston.
In December 2011, the WHIR interviewed CyrusOne chief operating officer Michael Duckett about its growth plans. He says that Texas is an attractive market for the company as the oil and gas industry concentrated in Texas is a data-intensive business that uses its offering. He also says that CyrusOne is not intending to invest capital abroad until it satisfies its US growth plans. CyrusOne has an existing data center in the UK, as well as across the US.
“I am really excited about this project, as it’s of the size and scale that historically was only available to the giant ‘Web-scale’ companies,” Kevin Timmons, CTO of CyrusOne said in a statement. “The product that we will deliver to the Dallas market will be unique from a number of perspectives not only in terms of size, but more importantly we will be able to take advantage of free air cooling and will implement several cutting-edge concepts in our electrical back plane that all translates into lower costs for our customers and helps the environment.”
According to CyrusOne, its building will provide 250 kilowatts per foot in a 2N design expected to deliver 100 percent uptime.
The data center will be constructed to meet Platinum LEED certification standards.
“The demand by our Fortune 500 customers for high-quality enterprise-class facilities has been tremendous,” Gary Wojtaszek, president and CEO of CyrusOne said in a statement. “Our goal with this facility is to provide our customers with a higher quality product than they would ever consider building for themselves and also design it in such a way that it will be 50 percent more efficient than what they could ever achieve.”
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Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry Review where she covers daily news and features online, as well as in print. She has a bachelor of journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto, and has been writing for the WHIR since September 2010. You can find her on Twitter @NicoleHenderson.
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