Park Place International, provider of cloud-based infrastructure services to hospitals and other healthcare providers, has become the first tenant at CyrusOne’s new data center in San Antonio, Texas.

This is the final data center in Cincinnati Bell-owned CyrusOne’s expansion plan for Texas. The plan was to have data centers in all four of the state’s major commercial markets: Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Mark Middleton, director of cloud services at Park Place, said the company chose San Antonio because it did not have frequent natural disasters.

“Reliable IT services start with a facility located in an area at low risk for natural disasters that is hardened and secured, with highly available electrical, cooling, and monitoring,” he said.

Parkplace provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to the healthcare industry using a platform developed by Massachusetts-based Meditech. The services include fully managed Meditech hosting and disaster recovery for Meditech and enterprise applications.

The data center sits on 10 acres of land and provides access to a total of about 20MW of power. It also features CyrusOne’s Sky for the Cloud peering and interconnection platform, designed to help customers inside build cloud infrastructure.

The next step for CyrusOne in Texas will be the launch of a statewide Internet exchange later in 2012, the company said. The exchange will connect the four major markets as parts of Sky for the Cloud.

Besides Texas, the company’s state of origin, CyrusOne has data center in the Chicago metro, Kentucky, Ohio, London and Singapore. It is also building a massive data center in the Phoenix market.

Its parent company Cincinnati Bell announced in May it was planning to spin a portion of CyrusOne out in an initial public offering, possibly converting it into a real estate investment trust (REIT).

A REIT is a publicly-traded entity focused real-estate investments. The structure gets special tax treatment and enjoys a high degree of liquidity when investing in real estate.