Development project in Chandler, Arizona will deliver Turn-Key Data center and Powered Base Building space to supply constrained market.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a wholesale data center provider, yesterday announced that it is expanding its data center facility at 2121 S. Price Road in Chandler, Arizona, adding approximately 226,000 rentable square feet of data center space and 13 megawatts of power to meet customer demand in the Phoenix market. The company avers that the existing facility totals over 293,000 square feet and was 97% occupied as of September 30, 2010. When construction is complete, the expanded facility is expected to feature more than 31 megawatts of total power.
It articulates that utilizing a design that wraps around the current building, the newly constructed data center space will leverage the existing infrastructure to support the footprint and operations of the current facility and expansion space. This design will also significantly increase delivery of new data center space, meeting customer speed-to-market requirements. Construction is currently underway on the expanded building shell with the first three 1125 kilowatt Turn-Key Data centers scheduled to be delivered in the third quarter of 2011.
"Phoenix is a significant data center market with strong demand from many companies that want to locate their IT infrastructure in a location relatively free of natural disasters, with significant fiber connectivity and competitively priced electricity. The local power utility, Salt River Project (SRP), provides green options and has a long history of maintaining robust, stable, and low cost power," said Brent Behrman, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, at Digital Realty Trust. "Phoenix is a very important market for Digital Realty Trust. Our investment in this property underscores our commitment to the Phoenix area, where we have established a substantial operating platform for supporting our customers in Arizona."
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