(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider CyrusOne (www.cyrusone.com) announced on Tuesday it plans to build and operate a 94,000 square foot data center in West Houston, with the option to expand by adding an additional 100,000 square feet on the adjacent land.
This year has been an active one for CyrusOne in expanding its data center footprint.
In February, the company added 81,000 square feet to its existing 80,000 square foot Lewisville facility, and in April, revealed it will build a 50,000-square-foot data center in Austin.
The build marks the company’s seventh data center and brings its total footprint to 480,000 square feet. In addition to this new build, the company has two other facilities in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.
“Since our entrance into the Houston market in 2001, we have built a strong momentum within the energy, financial services, and technology industries, as companies are realizing the benefits of data center colocation, including scalability of infrastructure, deferred capital expenditures associated with building a data center and increased availability of critical applications,” says David Ferdman, president and CEO of CyrusOne. “Our decision to build a third data center facility in Houston is based on increased local, national and international customer demand as companies are restructuring their data center strategies in an ever-changing economy.”
The new data center is located along the North West Beltway, between I-10 and 290.
Built from the ground up by the company’s construction team, the “greenfield” project offers the highest power redundancy and highest power-density infrastructure, supporting 250-plus watts per square foot across the entire data center floor.
Since it is located along a major fiber corridor in Houston, the data center will have access to significant and redundant utility power feeds, as well as to the fastest and most reliable telecommunications networks.
The facility is designed to sustain typical and potential Houston weather risks, and is located outside the FEMA 500 year flood plain and will have a reinforced roof and concrete walls.
The data center’s security features include perimeter fencing, dual authentication, biometric access systems, digital closed circuit monitoring systems, and 24-hour security guards.
