Expedient Data Centers, a U.S. provider of colocation, cloud hosting, managed hosting, and connectivity services, has announced the groundbreaking of the first phase of a new 60,000 square feet data center in Dublin, Ohio. This will bring Expedient’s 10 data center production capacity to a total of 275,000 square feet from which over 1,400 business customers are served.
This is a “ground-up” build investment and the cost of the initial phase, which represents about one third of the total data center capacity, will exceed $22 million. The first computing room will be 15,000 square feet of production space which will support 575 standard cabinets of computing equipment. Once all three computing rooms are fully built out, the total investment is projected to exceed $52 million. The grand opening of the new data center is currently slated for mid-late 2015.
Features new data center
Features of the new, Dublin Data Center include 15,000 square feet of 36″ raised floor space, dual power feeds, four 800 kW Liebert UPS systems, 450 tons of cooling, two Caterpillar diesel generators with 4.4MW capacity and completely diverse telecom entrances. The data center facility is also designed for customers that require the highest level of security.
Like all of Expedient’s data centers, the facility will be staffed 24x7x365 with live, local technical support, it will meet SSAE16, SOC I and SOC II audit requirements and will support the company’s customer’s needs to meet PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other industry/regulatory standards. Expedient expects to add about fifteen technical support and IT engineer type positions in the near term, coinciding with the new facility opening.
Connectivity
“We were fortunate to secure a location which is directly adjacent to an electrical substation, which in our business, equates to enhanced availability to a reliable power source,” said Bryan Smith, Expedient’s Regional Vice President. “There are also fourteen fiber optic telecommunications/data-transport providers physically present at the property, which will give our customers a variety of options for data transport diversity.”
The new facility will be Expedient’s 10th data center, all of which are seamlessly connected facilities, over a fully redundant, 10Gb Fiber network. Expedient’s other data centers are located in Pittsburgh (2),Cleveland (2), Columbus, Baltimore (2), Boston and Indianapolis. The company is adding more data center capacity in Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Boston, with significant expansion to those facilities already underway.
