Inside QualityTech's downtown Atlanta data center.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Quality Technology Services (www.qualitytech.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed its 130,000 square foot expansion of its Metro data center located near downtown Atlanta.
The company will use the funds from its recent $150 million partnership with growth equity investor General Atlantic to finance the expansion. QualityTech first acquired the 990,000 square foot facility in October 2006 from MetroNexus.
“Our partnership with General Atlantic has allowed QualityTech to start the next step in our phased build-out of the Metro Atlanta Data Center facility,” says Mark Waddington, president of QualityTech. “The addition of over 130,000 square feet of raised floor space and supporting infrastructure positions this facility as one of the world’s largest and most technologically-advanced data center facilities.”
The company will add two large raised-floor pods to the facility’s existing raised-floor footprint of 200,000 square feet.
This expansion will complete 65 percent of the planned raised-floor capacity of the building, providing 330,000 square feet of additional customer-ready raised floor.
With the data center expansion, QualityTech says it is adopting environmentally sustainable design practices.
The company’s design-build team will follow the philosophies and strategies for LEED certification, as outlined by the US Green Building Council. QualityTech says it is also planning to obtain LEED certification for the facility.
The Metro data center’s expansion will include a Facilities Lab to test new energy conservation initiatives such as air and water economization technologies and new developments in power distribution and consumption technology.
QualityTech will also install advanced cooling and delivery methods to the floor that will ensure that customers will reach even higher levels of power density.
In addition to the downtown Atlanta facility and its main Georgia-based headquarters, QualityTech operates data centers in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Kansas, Indiana, Silicon Valley, California for a total of more than 2 million square feet of data center space.
