A newly formed San Francisco company called Rubicon announced a plan to build a massive data center campus in Reno, Nevada, a second major data center development in the area announced this year.

Together with developer Prologis, Rubicon is planning to start with a 20MW, 300,000 sq ft facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. The vision includes data center suites for both enterprise customers and retail-colocation providers.

Reno has some of the lowest energy rates in the US, and Rubicon said it would deliver an average rate of US$0.045 per kWh. The other major data center construction project happening in the area is Apple’s 15MW build in Reno Technology Park.

Colo5 to build 100,000 sq ft in central Florida

Colo5, a Jacksonville, Florida-based data center operator, is preparing to build a data center in Lakeland to serve the central-Florida market. Slated to come online in March 2013, the data center will fill a 100,000 sq ft building.

Colo5 is planning to build it out in 10,000 sq ft chunks, investing US$20m over three years. The provider will sell space to both wholesale and retail colocation tenants.

This will be Colo5’s second Florida location, the first one being in its native Jacksonville. It also has a partnership with MarquisNet, operator of a Las Vegas data center, through which it offers colocation space on the US West Coast.

Digital and KDC going large in Dallas metro

San Francisco-based data center wholesale developer and landlord Digital Realty Trust teamed up with Dallas real-estate company KDC to develop two powered-shell data centers in Richardson, Texas, Dallas Business Journal reported.

KDC will build the two buildings – 244,000 sq ft total – and Digital will build out the data center infrastructure. KDC has already started construction, and the partners expect to finish the data centers by the end of 2012.

Construction kicks off on Block Data Center in Vegas

Telecom Real Estate Services has started construction of its Block Data Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Data Center Knowledge. In the project’s first phase, the company is planning to build out 50,000 sq ft of rentable space.

It will build the shell and the basic N+1 infrastructure and give the customer the choice between financing and building out the rest themselves and having Rubicon finance and build it.