CyrusOne, one of the largest data center providers in Texas, has released the name of its energy-sector anchor tenant at its new facility in the Houston area. Petroleum Geo-Services, an oil-exploration company, has installed IT equipment on 10,000 square feet of raised floor in the provider's Houston West data center commissioned in December.

Colocation turned out to be the most cost effective of the three choices the client explored when looking for the best way to expand capacity, the other two being retrofitting an existing legacy data center and building a new one, according to a CyrusOne news release.

"CyrusOne proved an ideal partner in that they met our performance requirements, matched our commitment to reducing environmental impact and were cost efficient,"Bill Rickert, manager of global compute resources for PGS, said in a statement. "Their long-term mutual commitment in these areas gave us the confidence to choose CyrusOne as our North American data center provider."

The provider, one of whose differentiators is a focus on offering colocation only, instead of the more common model of colocation and a multitude of managed services, builds its facilities out in 10,000 square foot pods like the one leased out to PGS. The 94,000 square foot Houston West facility supports power densities of up to 250 watts per square foot, the company said in December.

The client comes from a familiar sector for Houston-based CyrusOne, a sector the company has focused on from its inception in 2000. The provider has since increased the variety of industry verticals it caters to, adding financial, manufacturing, retail and technology companies as tenants, but the energy sector remains one of its major client resources.

CyrusOne is owned by Boston, Mass.-based private equity firm Abry Partners.