CyrusOne Expands Santa Clara Campus While Still Under Construction

CyrusOne is expanding it's Santa Clara data center campus just months after announcing their first data center in Silicon Valley. Demand must be strong. It was only in Q3 2018 when the company began building it's first data center in Santa Clara.

CyrusOne Press Release:

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 19, 2019--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced the purchase of 8 acres of land in Santa Clara. Upon completion, the new facility will be the second for CyrusOne in Santa Clara and will be adjacent to the company’s existing land parcel that is currently under construction. Combined, the CyrusOne Santa Clara Data Center campus will be the largest mission-critical concentration in Silicon Valley delivering over 100MW of capacity. The unique campus will be able to generate up to 27MWs of energy by use of the onsite generation, giving customers even more aggressive power pricing over any competitor in the market.

“Today marks an exciting new chapter for CyrusOne as we set the course for our second data center in the heart of Silicon Valley. With innovative power cogeneration, our new data center will provide low energy costs for our hyperscale customers. Part of our mission at CyrusOne is to help the world’s leading technology companies power this new exciting digital era we all live in. Continuing our expansion in Silicon Valley will help our customers turn their visions into reality,” said Kevin Timmons, chief technology officer, CyrusOne. “In technology, speed is a differentiator, and our track record demonstrates that we build data centers faster than anyone in the world.”