(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com) announced on Monday that it has acquired four contiguous parcels of land totaling 34.2 acres located next to its data center facilities in Ashburn, Virginia.
The new parcels, which includes an important utility substation, increase the potential capacity of the campus by more than 400,000 square feet.
“The addition of the property contiguous to our existing facilities in Ashburn allows us to create a data center campus environment that will deliver significant operating economies of scale and sufficient new inventory to meet the ongoing demand in this top tier market,” says Michael F. Foust, CEO of Digital Realty Trust. “We currently are tracking a significant number of datacenter requirements in the market and are on schedule to complete the construction of the next phase, a 135,000 square foot facility, in the fourth quarter of 2009.”
The new 135,000 square foot data center is being built to the company’s design specifications.
DRT says the facility will support four 2250kW turn-key data center pods totaling 68,000 square feet of raised floor and about 7,500 square feet of office space.
The company owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages 75 technology-related real estate, providing data center solutions for domestic and international tenants.
Last month, asset management firm Neuberger Berman established a large data center presence in Digital Realty Trust’s data center facility in the Northeastern US.
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