CheckFree Corporation has purchased 14 acres of land at the MetCenter business park in Austin, and plans to use the land to build a 210,000 square foot data center. CheckFree, which was recently acquired by FiServ (FISV) for $4.4 billion, provides electronic billing and payment services that are used by more than 3,000 financial services web sites.
The CheckFree project was announced by Zydeco Development, which is seeking to develop much of the remaining space at its huge MetCenter business park as a data center campus. Zydeco said Tuesday that it was launching the second phase of development at MetCenter, and has broken ground on a 150,000 square foot industrial building to kick off the expansion.
In early 2006 Zydeco announced plans for a large data center park within MetCenter. The 550 acre MetCenter campus includes 2 million square feet of developed commercial space.