Wholesale data center provider Vantage announced local authorities in Santa Clara, California, issued it a permit to deploy the entire 50MW of power capacity available through the utility substation on its massive data center campus in the city.

Vantage said the permit provided more confidence in the company’s ability to serve its customers.

Jim Trout, the company’s CEO, said Vantage was excited about its growth prospects as it approached its third year of operation.

“To continue to ensure our competitiveness we've made the decisions necessary to ensure timely delivery of permits and improve our campus in order to ensure that our current and future customers can move-in without delay and that we can scale our campus without disruption,” he said.

Vantage is also building a new central generator plant at the site. This plant will give the company the ability to scale the remaining capacity quickly.

Trout said the company was ahead of schedule in preparing and leasing the site’s remaining capacity.

There are three data center buildings on campus, with 12MW of built-out data center space left unoccupied. The company is in the process of building out another 4MW of space for existing and future customers.

Vantage also announced the appointment of Henry Nothhaft as its new executive chairman. Nothhaft has a history of overseeing a number of successful technology companies’ growth from the start-up stage through maturity.

His resume includes leadership roles at Danger, Concentric, Network Corp., DSC Communications and GTE Telenet Communications (now Sprint), according to Vantage.

“In Vantage's first two years, their demonstrated ability to dominate the Santa Clara market, develop new, highly advanced data centers, and improve their access to capital is nothing short of amazing -- and something that I would only expect from a far more mature company,” Nothhaft said.