Sentinel Data Centers has completed construction and commissioning of the initial 50,000 sq ft phase of its NC-1 data center in Durham, North Carolina, bringing online 8MW of power capacity.

The facility's total size is 420,000 sq ft and the company expects it to yield approximately 200,000 sq ft of net computer room space, divisible into hard-walled, turnkey suites of multiple sizes and configurations.

The company's co-president Todd Aaron said, “North Carolina is a truly exceptional state in which to do business, and we are grateful at the reception our model and the NC-1 facility have received both from local companies and from out-of-region enterprises seeking to leverage the state's attractive occupancy economics.”

In addition to the state's business friendliness, Sentinel's pitch for the site revolves around customizable suites that can range from 10 cabinets to 50,000 sq ft or bigger, ability to deploy multiple redundancy tiers, on-demand capacity or footprint expansion and enterprise-centric operations and references.

This is the sixth facility Sentinel has developed since its founding. Earlier this year, the company announced the development of a 131,000 sq ft, single-tenant data center for an unnamed global financial media company.