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SBA Edge has opened a multi-tenant edge data center and fiber interconnection exchange in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. Jared Benson, director of strategic edge infrastructure at SBA, announced the launch in July, and the carrier-neutral facility's meet-me room supports data speeds up to 400 Gbps.
SBA Edge, the data center subsidiary of tower operator SBA Communications, owns and operates the building and is leasing colocation cabinets there to carriers and enterprises. Leasing is open. The company did not disclose the site's location or capacity, Data Center Dynamics reported.
Baxtel's record for the Corpus Christi site places the facility at 813 Artesian Street downtown, an address also listed on datacenterHawk. That record describes a 30-cabinet, low-density colocation footprint that can expand to about 1 MW through a phase-2 containerized module, names UnitiLogix and Crown Castle/Zayo as day-one long-haul carrier tenants, and credits RDI as builder. It also says the facility replaces a roughly 90-year-old carrier hotel on the primary long-haul fiber route between Mexico and Dallas.
"We are thrilled to announce the completion and launch of our brand-new, multi-tenant, multi-use edge data center and fiber interconnection exchange in the heart of Corpus Christi, Texas," Benson wrote. He said the facility is designed for Mexico-US internet transit, distributed computing, cloud environments and local AI inference workloads.
Phase two is next. "Phase 2 will commence soon bringing turnkey, scalable deployments optimized for high-performance computing (HPC) and localized AI infrastructure," Benson wrote.
SBA Edge's parent operates more than 17,000 wireless towers in the United States and three multi-megawatt regional data centers in West Chicago, Jacksonville and São Paulo, according to the company. Baxtel reported in July 2023 that SBA launched an edge data center at an Arlington, Texas tower site, part of an edge-at-tower program the company began testing with Packet in 2018.
Baxtel tracks 54 data centers across South Texas, operated by 27 providers, with the largest being Ardent's Texas 1 site at 100 MW.
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