European carrier neutral data center builder Interxion announced that it is investing EUR 12 million in a second Dublin data centre.

It follows news of the completion of a Euro 45 million subordinated credit facility that complemented their existing Euro 135 million revolving credit facility. This will be used for a number of strategic expansion projects driven by the rising market demand for next-generation colocation infrastructure.

DatacenterDynamics first reported on Interxion's Dublin plans and its investment strategy earlier this month (see below).

The new data centre will have a total of 2,455m2 of gross space, with the first phase of equipped space scheduled to be ready for customer installations in April 2010.
With a redundant 4 MVA grid connection, the data centre will support the latest high-density power configurations.

It will offer 2N UPS power and N+1 cooling as well as advanced alarm and monitoring systems and has been designed using Interxion's energy-efficient modular architecture, with free cooling and maximum-efficiency components as standard.

Power monitoring and management systems will also enable customers to monitor their power usage, streamlining their operations to optimise Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).

"This strategic investment is a great endorsement of the health of the Irish data centre business," said Tanya Duncan, Managing Director, Interxion Ireland. "As the benefits of outsourcing to data centres have become widely accepted in Ireland over the past few years, demand has helped us to grow our capacity while maintaining a strong focus on quality processes and environmental performance."

The firm said its business in Ireland has grown by 50 per cent year-on-year. A major part of this growth comes from telecoms providers, enterprises and other technology companies that are seeking carrier and vendor-neutral infrastructure combined with a constant focus on customer satisfaction. Interxion Ireland also recently achieved independent certification for the internationally recognised ISO 27001 standard for information security management systems.