(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator and colocation provider CyrusOne (www.cyrusone.com) announced last week that it had completed the building and commissioning of its West Houston data center, and was ready to begin installing customers just six months after breaking ground on the project.
The 94,000 square foot facility, says CyrusOne, is the first phase of a planned 200,000 square foot site. The company’s construction team broke ground on the project in June 2009, a ground-up undertaking it says would ordinarily have taken in the vicinity of 18 months to complete.
The press release does not describe specifically how the company accomplished the remarkable rate of construction. However, certain general assumptions can be made about extra resources and manpower that might have been applied to the project.
CyrusOne says it now operates seven facilities in Texas, totaling 480,000 square feet, with three in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.
The new facility is located along the North West Beltway, between I-10 and 290. CyrusOne says the facility focused on power redundancy and density, supporting more than 250 watts per square foot across the entire data center floor, and is positioned strategically for access to power and telecommunications networks.
According to the press release, the building was built to sustain potential Houston weather risks, located outside the FEMA 500 year flood plain, with a reinforced roof, concrete walls and hurricane shelters, along with a variety of security features.
The company says it has already signed an anchor client for the facility, an oil and gas company that took 12,000 square feet of space.
A PDF fact sheet on the North Houston facility is available for download from the data centers section of the CyrusOne website.
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