April 8, 2009—CyrusOne, a corporate colocation provider, announced that it has signed a long term lease agreement to acquire real estate to build a data center in Austin, Texas. The move makes the company the leading provider in the Texas colocation market, says CyrusOne. The company will have six facilities totaling 380,000 square feet in Texas, including two facilities in Houston, three in Dallas and one in Austin.
The 50,000-square-foot facility is located in Austin’s premier data center business park, The MetCenter, which encompasses two on-site electric substations each with the capacity to reach 400 megawatts fed from separate power sources, an underground electrical infrastructure and redundant telecom and water infrastructure.
With the opening of the Austin data center, CyrusOne brings two “anchor” clients, one company in the Global Top 10 and the other in the Fortune 500; both are in the energy industry. These initial clients will allow CyrusOne to enter the market with positive operating income.
Disaster recovery and business continuity services in the Austin site will be available immediately for customers, while data center space will come online in the third quarter of this year. The data center will be fully engineered and constructed with today’s best-in-class design, by the CyrusOne construction team with the same features present in the other CyrusOne facilities.
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