GARLAND, TEXAS —Stream Data Centers, the Dallas-based data center arm of Stream Realty Partners, will develop DFW VII, a 400,000-square-foot data center campus in Garland. The first phase will deliver a 140,000-square-foot, expandable data center that is slated for completion late this year. The campus will be situated on 22.6 acres on Lookout Drive and feature two 40 MW utility feeds.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II (CV Mission Critical REIT II) has purchased the Rancho Cordova Data Center Portfolio for $51 million, excluding acquisition fees and costs. Located in Sacramento, the portfolio consists of two single-story facilities: a 69,048-square-foot turnkey colocation data center, located at 11085 Sun Center Drive, and a 63,791-square-foot, multi-tenant wholesale data center, located at 3065 Gold Camp Drive. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 82.4 percent occupied. Michael Hochanadel, Raul Saavedra and Jake Wagner of JLL represented the seller, Digital Realty Trust, in the deal.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Vint Hill, Va.-based Assured Communications Advisors International (ACA International) will invest $52 million to build a 130,000-square-foot data center in Virginia Beach. The telecommunications consulting firm will build the new facility on a 10.2-acre site within Corporate Landing Business Park, a 325-acre, publicly developed business park owned by the Virginia Beach Economic Development Authority. The new facility will house ACA International’s new corporate headquarters and a Tier III data center providing network-neutral co-location services. In addition, the building will serve as a cable landing station for future subsea telecommunications cables. The building will create 30 jobs upon completion in the fourth quarter of 2019. ACA International provides strategy, project planning, development and oversight of broadband, satellite, subsea cables, wireless/mobility and smart city planning.
SAN FRANCISCO – CIM Group, in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), has commenced construction for its 240,000-square-foot data center campus on 7.3 acres at 400 Paul Ave. in San Francisco. The first phase of development will include the renovation of two existing 1930s-era buildings. Totaling 54,225 square feet, the buildings will be modernized to provide creative office and support space for data center tenants. Additionally, construction will start immediately for the campus, including a 187,000-square-foot purpose-built data center. The two-story building will feature a secure and scalable data center with 24 MW of power capacity.
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced yesterday that social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will invest $750 million and create at least 100 full-time jobs with its new data center in Stanton Springs, a 1,620-acre industrial park located roughly 30 miles east of Atlanta in Newton County. The Newton Data Center will include two buildings totaling 970,000 square feet and will help Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook provide apps and services to more than 2 billion people around the world. The new facility will be Facebook’s ninth data center in the United States. New jobs will include positions in engineering and management, as well as opportunities for data center technicians. The Newton Data Center will be fully powered by clean and renewable energy, and cooled using outdoor air instead of air conditioners. The facility will also house Facebook’s specialized hardware that powers its apps and other services. The buildings are expected to be fully operational in 2020. EJane Caraway, director of life sciences and corporate solutions for the Georgia Department of Economic Development, represented the state’s Global Commerce Division in partnership with the Joint Development Authority of Jasper, Morgan, Newton and Walton counties, Walton EMC, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Georgia …
CHICAGO — CoreSite Realty Corp. has acquired a two-acre land parcel in downtown Chicago to build CH2, a 175,000-square-foot data center. The four-story facility will support 18 megawatts of power capacity. CoreSite expects to begin construction on the project at the end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019. The company plans to construct the building in three phases, consisting of six megawatts of capacity per phase, with a total estimated cost of $190 million to $210 million. CH2 will be located one mile from CoreSite’s existing CH1 facility and network node. CoreSite plans to connect the two sites via fiber.
DALLAS — Equinix Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), a data center owner and operator based in Redwood City, Calif., has agreed to purchase Infomart Dallas from ASB Real Estate Investments for $800 million. The 1.6 million-square-foot Infomart Dallas is a highly visible data center facility located at 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Dallas North Tollway. Equinix is the facility’s largest tenant, representing approximately 40 percent of lease revenues. The facility houses four of eight Equinix Dallas International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. Infomart Dallas is home to 45 tenants, including global companies such as Bank of America and Verizon Wireless. The transaction includes developable land adjacent to the facility that will allow the new ownership to potentially increase the facility’s current capacity of 11MW of power to 40MW. The capital consideration will consist of $31 million in cash and $750 million in debt securities that will be paid out to ASB over a three-year period following closing, which is expected to occur in the second quarter. (The notes will be valued at roughly $769 million when adjusted to current trading value of Equinix’s outstanding bonds.) Washington, D.C.-based ASB, a division of ASB Capital Management LLC, originally …
SUNRISE, FLA. — Dallas-based Lincoln Rackhouse will break ground this month on a 35,000-square-foot build-to-suit data center in Sunrise. In a sales-leaseback agreement, Bo Bond and Ali Greenwood of JLL’s Data Center Solutions secured a 20-year prelease with an undisclosed U.S. mobile network provider. The telecom switch center will expand the network’s delivery platform in the region. Burr Computer Environments Inc. is the project’s engineer, Gensler is the architect and Smith Commercial Contracting Inc. is the general contractor. Lincoln Property Co.’s South Florida office will oversee development and management for the project, which is slated for a fourth-quarter completion.
Demand for data center space stems from a variety of sources. The vast majority of companies across most industries have some sort of web presence, and their customer and employee records and information are stored electronically. At the same time on the consumer side, smartphones and tablet devices are all but ubiquitous, their owners constantly upping their usage of apps and social media platforms. Nonprofit communications firm CTIA tracks aggregate wireless data usage across the country on an annual basis. The Washington, D.C.-based company found that in 2013, Americans used approximately 3.2 trillion megabytes of data. By 2015, a year in which there were about 228 million smartphones and 41 million tablet devices in circulation, that figure had increased threefold to 9.6 trillion megabytes. By 2016, a year in which there were more than 261 million smartphones in circulation, wireless data usage had exceeded 13.7 trillion megabytes. That total represents more than 35 times the volume of data traffic recorded in 2010, according to CTIA’s website. Web presences, records storage and electronic communications — not to mention the ever-expanding role of e-commerce in retail today — each contribute marginally to the growing demand for data center space. However, when combined …
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. — CyrusOne, a Dallas-based global data center REIT, has unveiled plans to expand into the Atlanta-area market with a 44-acre campus in Douglasville. The $206 million project will be located near the home of Google’s 2 million-square-foot server farm, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. At full build-out, the project will include three data centers totaling 440,000 square feet, and 50 megawatts of critical power. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2018, with completion of the first building slated for the summer of 2018. CyrusOne’s Atlanta centers will have access to multiple cloud providers and will be linked to the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange, which delivers interconnection between other CyrusOne locations across the country. The company currently operates 44 data center facilities across the United States, Europe and Asia.
