CRG West has announced the development of a best-in-class, energy-efficient datacenter campus in Santa Clara, California. The company has closed upon the land acquisition for a three-building, 350,000 square-foot, 50MW campus. The company anticipates commencing construction on the first building this August and expects to complete the building in the second quarter of 2009.
The phased 50MW development will be powered by Silicon Valley Power and be comprised of over 350,000 square feet of datacenter and ancillary office space. At this campus CRG West will provide data-center and peering solutions to its customers along the continuum from single-cabinet colocation space through custom-built cages of any size up to blocks of wholesale datacenter space up to 20MW. Additionally, CRG West can construct one of the planned buildings to meet the exact specifications of a single user for any corporation that wishes to design its datacenter but lease it rather than fund the up-front capital required to construct it. In addition to the datacenter space, customers will be able to lease first-class office space at the campus to ensure close proximity of operations staff and their mission critical IT equipment.
The campus' fiber-rich location in Santa Clara ensures robust connectivity options to major points of peering, including CRG West's existing two facilities in the Bay area. CRG West will deploy its open peering exchange, the Any2 Exchange, to the campus, allowing tenants to access over 140 networks on one of the nation's largest and most cost-effective peering exchanges.
"Our latest project in Santa Clara leverages off of the peering density and operational capability we have developed in our two current locations in the market, commented Thomas Ray, president and CEO of CRG West. "Our expansion with this additional campus further solidifies our organization as a premier provider of world-class datacenters and peering opportunities throughout the US. Further, the scale inherent in this campus enables us to execute upon our commitment to provide a full range of datacenter and peering solutions to our customers. Finally, the low cost of power in Santa Clara compared to other locations in the Bay Area ensures that our company will continue to offer best-in-class customer solutions with a very compelling value proposition.
"The Bay Area continues to see strong demand from customers and a need for more supply in areas providing reliable and lower-cost power combined with densely populated peering opportunities, commented David Dunn, senior vice president of CRG West. "We believe that our new campus, tethered to our existing peering fabric, will lead the market in offering complete customer solutions in best-in-class datacenters supported by one of the industry's strongest operational platforms all with a compelling value proposition.
The completion of the Santa Clara datacenter campus will add 50MW to CRG West's current 10 MW platform. In addition, the company has over 100MW of additional projects under active negotiation. Amidst rapid expansion over the past two years, CRG West has continued to build energy-efficient, reliable, redundant and robust datacenter space, provide industry-leading peering, interconnection, smart-hands and related customer services, and maintain flexibility and value for our customers.