Dallas-based Broadband Utilities Inc. plans to build three 50,000-square-foot LEED-certified data centers in Boulder County, Colorado.
John Drossos, CEO of the datacenter hosting company, said: "We have approximately 13 acres under contract, and our plans are to build three enterprise datacenters on that property where we can have three individual users or a large (user) that needs a tremendous amount of space."
The company's plan is to build three LEED-certified Tier III datacenters. "We think Tier III is kind of the sweet spot," Drossos said. "The whole push to green is becoming more real where there is a real focus with large companies and enterprises ... to make them as efficient as possible," Drossos said. "The market is demanding it."
Drossos told the Boulder City Business Report that solar panels and Xeriscaping - landscaping without additional irrigation - are two examples of environmentally friendly design aspects the company plans to incorporate.
"Solar panels on the roof are a no-brainer for us," he said. "We'll be building the shell and a lot of the infrastructure of the buildings starting in January and the finish out of the facility will be depending on the end user."
By building a modular structure, it gives both Broadband and the data center user more design flexibility to meet the needs of the user.