Peak 10 has launched its second data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, citing growing demand for its services. The data center is next to the company’s existing facility there.

The addition brings another 11,000 sq ft of data enter space, bringing the company’s total inventory in South Florida to 66,000 sq ft. Stefan Pittinger, regional VP and general manager for Peak 10 in the region, said there was an increasing demand for Peak 10’s service offerings.

“We are glad to have our South Florida 2 facility open for business to meet this demand,” he said.

Peak 10 operates nine other data center campuses around the US. In Florida, it also has data centers in Tampa and Jacksonville. The company operates data centers in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia.

In March, Peak 10 sold a Georgia data center to the real estate investment trust Carter Validus for US$5.3m.

David Jones, the company’s CEO, said Peak 10 was committed to investing into its markets, growing its data center footprint and its cloud infrastructure solutions. “During the past year, we have completed significant expansions on the Louisville, Richmond and Nashville campuses and for cloud solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers,” he said.

Fort Lauderdale is considered part of the Miami data center market – a market identified as emerging among second-tier US data center markets by the research firm Tier1. Peak 10 entered the market in December 2010 and, according to Tier1, has been successful there.

In a 2011 report on multi-tenant data center markets in the US, the research house predicted demand in Miami to outgrow supply over the next several years.