Texas data center developer and operator Stream Data Centers is planning to build a data center in Chaska, Minnesota, its first facility in the Minneapolis suburb and its 16^th nationwide.

The data center will be a purpose-built 76,000 sq ft facility. The Minneapolis-St. Paul region is the third-largest metropolitan area in the Midwest and home to corporate headquarters for 19 Fortune 500 companies and several large, privately-held firms, the company said.

“Our customers are some of the largest businesses in corporate America,” Rob Kennedy, co-Managing partner at Stream, said. “This purpose-built data center will serve their enterprise IT and data center needs and give them access to Chaska's robust power and fiber infrastructure.”

Users can take advantage of tax incentives offered by the government in this location to encourage IT and data center investment throughout the state. Minnesota offers tax abatement to its data center tenants, according to Stream.

It also offers sales tax rebates on the purchase of computers and related equipment, including networking and storage systems, cooling and power infrastructure, software and electrical power.

Stream's greenfield data center development in Chaska will have dual-feed power from two utility substations and will be served by eight fiber providers, the company said. The building can be divided into three private suites, or be controlled entirely by one tenant.

Each of the potential private suites will provide customers with 1,200 kW of critical load and will have conduits and pads in place, allowing them to expand to up to 2,400 kW. Each suite will offer a private utility yard as well as independent back-up generators, power and cooling infrastructure.

Each suite will include disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 sq ft of raised floor in the private data hall.

The announcement area comes weeks after Stream's ground-breaking on construction of a similar facility in San Antonio, Texas, in June. That 76,000 sq ft building is slated to be fully commissioned and ready for occupancy in April 2014.

The company also provides data centers in Dallas, Houston and Denver.