US provider of colocation services Quality Technology Services has completed the first phase of its second data center in California's Silicon Valley region.
At full build-out, he 70,000-sq-ft campus in Santa Clara will about double the provider's capacity in the market. The recently finished Phase I adds 12,000 sq ft of raised floor and 1.8MW of power.
The company's CEO Chad Williams said in a statement the expansion would accommodate both domestic and international customers. "These measured increases in power capacity and space allow us to efficiently provide customized IT infrastructure in a burgeoning geographic market and position QTS for additional growth in the region and globally."
The first QTS building in Santa Clara provides about 40,000 sq ft of raised floor in a 67,000-sq-ft building.
The announcement comes during a wave of new space being brought to the Silicon Valley data center market.
Relatively new data center developer Vantage, for example, recently completed a 6MW data center in Santa Clara and started construction of the first 9MW phase of another data center at its site. Another young data center builder Server Farm Realty (a subsidiary of the Red Sea Group) is expected to launch its 13,600-sq-ft data center in Santa Clara in 2011.
Developer CoreSite earlier this year received planning permission to add 267,000 sq ft of building space at its Santa Clara campus. The company is currently in the process of building a 100,000-sq-ft data center in Santa Clara.
Verizon-owned Terremark is expected to launch a new 12,000 sq ft data center in Santa Clara this year as well.
Digital Realty Trust is building a 60,000-sq-ft data center in Santa Clara. In the same city, Digital competitor DuPont Fabros is planning to launch an 18.2MW phase of its first Silicon Valley data center in the third quarter of 2011.
Hosting company SoftLayer launched a new data center in San Jose (also part of the Silicon Valley) in April, with capacity to support 12,000 servers.