Data center services provider CyrusOne has completed the first phase of a 160,000 sq ft expansion at its Houston West data center campus. The phase is now fully operational with 40,000 sq ft of space commissioned, the company said.

The total expansion will add 18MW to Houston West. The campus is 300,000 sq ft overall, with 32MW of power capacity.

Earlier this year CyrusOne purchased an adjacent 33-acre parcel of land, which increases the size of the campus to more than 45 acres. It will have about 60-70MW of power once all phases of expansion are fully commissioned.

Kevin Timmons, CyrusOne CTO, said, “The increasing volume of data in the oil and gas industry has led leaders of these businesses to look to IT solutions providers to help optimize the data capture, analysis, and decision-making process. What we’ve built is a high-performance geophysical computing campus with the capability to handle and transfer intensive oil and gas exploration and production data between equipment at a single location and also across multiple geographic locations for analysis.”

The expansion of CyrusOne’s Houston West data center is part of the company’s goal to do business with nearly all major oil-and -as firms around the world.

The company has developed specialized data center engineering capabilities to handle high-density computing environments the energy industry requires. Its Texas data centers accomodate 250 watts per square foot and higher.

Houston West houses a high-performance computing cloud solution for the oil-and-gas industry to enable companies to align performance computing directly to project period and refresh cycles.

Earlier this year, CyrusOne launched a seismic interconnection platform for energy companies, called Seismic Internet Exchange. It provides means for customers to share large amounts of data associated with seismic exploration efforts.