{"id":655419,"date":"2013-04-30T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=95617"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:00:52","slug":"big-in-texas-cyrusone-sees-massive-growth-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655419","title":{"rendered":"Big in Texas: CyrusOne Sees Massive Growth in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The open space inside CyrusOne’s 680,000 square foot facility in Carrollton, Texas, along with one of the golf carts used to transport staff across the vast expanse of space. (Photo: Rich Miller)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

CARROLLTON, Texas<\/strong> – If the air is whooshing past your ears inside the data center, it usually means it’s time to turn down the airflow from the CRAC units.<\/p>\n

But in this case, at the CyrusOne <\/strong>data center north of Dallas, the whooshing noise is from the speed of the HoverBoard scooters that\u00a0staffers use to\u00a0zoom across the huge expanse of open space inside the 680,000 square-foot facility.<\/p>\n

The need for scooters and a brigade of golf carts is a sign of the scale of CyrusOne \u2018s ambitions with the facility in Carrollton, which\u00a0has just opened its first phase of colocation space. The\u00a047,000 square-foot data hall is the first of six phases planned for the enormous facility. The data hall is housed in the rear of the building, hence the need for speedy transport across the nearly quarter-mile distance to the office space at the front of the building.<\/p>\n

Success Story Rooted in Texas<\/h3>\n

Texans like to build big. And perhaps no company knows the Texas\u00a0market better than CyrusOne, which operates nine data centers at campuses in Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel good about committing to an asset like this when we have a success story in a given market, and we have that in Dallas,\u201d said Kevin Timmons, the CTO of CyrusOne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Carrollton data center is the showpiece for Timmons\u2019 \u201cmassively modular\u201d approach to design, which seeks to take the scale and advanced design of the largest web-scale data centers and bring them to enterprise customers in a multi-tenant environment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a large canvas on which to paint. The Carrollton data center is more than 1,428 feet long and 480 feet across. It\u2019s large enough to house six 747 airplanes, four football fields, a dozen space shuttles, or two Washington Monuments. It could eventually support up to 60 megawatts of critical IT load.<\/p>\n

CyrusOne has moved quickly to bring the facility online and begin leasing space. It took just 14 weeks from the start of work to commissioning the first phase of the data center. Several customers have already been installed.<\/p>\n

Big Facilities for Growing Markets<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s been a whirlwind year for CyrusOne, which had its IPO in January<\/a> and is making a big bet on big campuses. In Phoenix the company has opened the first data center on a new campus designed to house seven facilities and more than 1 million square feet<\/a> of space. In Houston,CyrusOne has just purchased another 32 acres of land<\/a> to expand its campus, which is being built around the infrastructure requirements of the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Dallas, where CyrusOne is rolling out a massive facility in one of the nation\u2019s most competitive markets. The company offers both colocation and wholesale data center suites, and has recently introduced an interconnection offering, allowing it to play on several levels of the complex Dallas market.<\/p>\n

CyrusOne isn’t alone in its confidence in demand in the\u00a0Dallas market \u00a0One of its major competitors believes that demand for wholesale space continues to outpace supply in Dallas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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