Data center provider Terremark has launched a second data center on its NAP of the Capital Region campus in Culpeper, Va. The company brought the first pod of the 50,000 square foot facility online last week, commissioning 50 percent of the newly fitted out space.

Terremark announced opening of the facility as part of its earnings report for the third quarter of the company's fiscal 2010, ended Dec. 31, 2009. The provider reported a 13-percent year-over-year increase in total revenue for the quarter ($74.3 million) but a decrease in operating income.

The company's operating income in the final quarter of calendar 2009 was about $6.68 million, or down from about $8.19 million during the same period one year prior.

Terremark experienced an overall increase in bookings, which amounted to $37.6 million for the quarter, and the company's CEO Manny Medina said he fully expected demand to continue growing.

"I have never seen the kind of pipeline we have today," Medina said in a conference call Monday, adding that demand for data center services, and particularly colocation, was "stronger than it has ever been."

The company's CFO Jose Segrera said more than 90 percent of the first pod in the new Culpeper data center was sold and the company had already booked 50 percent of the second pod. According to Medina, Terremark would start building out the third pod, once second one is 75-80 percent sold.

This is the second of five 50,000 square foot data centers at Terremark's NAP of the Capital Region campus. The company also has facilities in Miami, Dallas, Dominican Republic, South America and Europe.

At the end of 2009, utilization of build-out colocation space in Terremark data centers stood at 63.9 percent. The company is currently working on increasing its footprint further, building a new 5,000 square foot facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and expanding an existing facility in Santa Clara, Calif., by 14,000 square feet.

It also has recently leased out a 10,000 square foot Digital Realty Trust data center in Dallas, Texas, where it will move its infrastructure from a Level 3 facility in the region.

In November of 2009, Terremark announced an acquisition of remote back-up service provider DS3 for $11.5 million. "The DS3 team has been successfully integrating into the Terremark family," Medina said on Monday.