Texas data center services provider Data Foundry announced a plan to add hundreds of thousands of square feet of new data center space in the Austin market. The company has acquired a four-acre property, where it plans to build a 250,000 sq ft green-field data center. Data Foundry expects to launch phase one in the second quarter of next year.

"We performed extensive site research to locate an existing building in Austin that might suit the needs for our next site," Data Foundry CTO Ed Henigin said in a statement. "It became clear that retrofitting an existing building would not allow us to deliver the high level of service that we envision for our new data center, so we have chosen to build from the ground up."

Austin is a desirable data center market because of relatively cheap power