CRG West has announced a major expansion at its 276,000 square-foot carrier-neutral datacenter in Boston. Now in its third phase of expansion, CRG West will add an additional 17MW of power to the building to serve growing financial and enterprise deployments. The expansion space will cover approximately 130,000 square feet and be made available later this year and in 2009.
CRG West's expansion will provide prospective tenants significant flexibility and excellent opportunity for expansion. While CRG West will build and manage two Tier III central cooling and generator plants, it will allow each prospective tenant to determine what type of flooring, critical power infrastructure and cooling systems it will employ. The N+1 generator and cooling systems can provide enterprises with affordable redundancy that might not otherwise be available if they built a stand-alone datacenter. In some instances, a prospective tenant could pair two Tier III systems together, delivering a Tier IV offering or one of the most reliable uptime solutions available. Coupled with 24x7 on-site security and the ability to interconnect with multiple carriers, 70 Innerbelt can deliver a very cost-effective and reliable solution for many enterprises with existing and anticipated IT expansion needs.
According to CRG West's senior vice president David Dunn: "The expansion blends the traditional wholesale datacenter and retail colocation models. Our enterprise datacenter offering allows a company to design and finance the improvements within the dedicated suite themselves or have CRG West build, operate and manage the environmentals as in a traditional colocation relationship. At 70 Innerbelt, the prospective tenant can determine the optimal balance between internal resources, IT timing and the balance sheet. Either way CRG West will manage a robust and efficient central plant, offer metered power and can deliver space within 90 to 120 days. We could even support datacenter container deployments; our facility will be that flexible.