Data center services provider Clearview announced Wednesday opening of a new data center in Waco, Tex., where the company plans to provide enterprise hosting, managed services and business process outsourcing to clients. The 43,000-square-foot facility, called Information Technology Gateway, is a repurposed Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelter.

The data center is connected to dual commercial power feeds and features multicarrier fiber availability. The company is touting the facility as a premium disaster recovery and business continuity site for clients with locations in Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio, as it is easily accessible by car (in case of an airway disruption) and receives power through a grid separate from the major city systems in Texas.

"Disaster recovery and business continuity are becoming more and more important to clients every day," Clearview partner Jay Looney said in a statement. "We have developed a business unit to specifically focus on these important business issues, turning what otherwise might have been catastrophes into predictable, manageable continuity and recovery scenarios."

The data center is within 100 miles of Dallas, Austin and San Antonio and within 200 miles within Houston.

Clearview has a program that is focused on persuading U.S. organizations to outsource services to domestic companies with U.S. facilities rather than overseas.

"America First is Clearview's approach to not-so-remote application outsourcing and business process outsourcing," Clearview partner Jay Battershell, said in a statement. "While off-shoring has come to be a part of many business' strategies, Clearview offers superior services at lower risk and higher customer interaction while competing in value with many foreign soil solutions."