US-based telecommunications and data center services provider Cincinnati Bell is planning to build a massive new data center just outside of Phoenix. Once completed, the facility will provide more than 1m sq ft of data center floor, served by more than 110MW of power.

Cincinnati Bell CFO Gary Wojtaszek said in a conference call that the company has entered in to an agreement to buy a 40-acre property in the Phoenix region, where it plans to build the facility. "We intend to begin construction on the project during 2012 and plan to construct what will ultimately become one of the largest most advanced data centers in the country," he said.

The data center - whose first phase is scheduled to bring 40,000 sq ft of space online by 2013 - will target northern and southern California markets.

The company is also planning to enter the Asian market, Wojtaszek added. It is currently in negotiations to buy a 3,000 sq ft data center in Singapore, which is scheduled to come online in the third quarter of 2011.

Focus on Singapore continues Cincinnati Bell's international expansion since it bought the US-based colocation provider CyrusOne. The company's first venture outside of the US was a recently launched data center in the London region.

After it purchased CyrusOne, Cincinnati Bell said it would use the company as a platform from which to build a global data center business. Expansion plans announced then were to start with entries into the US west coast and New York-New Jersey markets, as well as London and Singapore.

The plans outlined above and the recently launched London facility take care of three of the four markets the company said it would enter, leaving New York-New Jersey.

"Given the supply concerns that we have seen in the New York-New Jersey market, we purposely decided not to launch there," Wojtaszek said.