QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has announced plans to build a mega data center campus in Hillsboro, OR. The company already has a customer for the first phase of the development, which should open in the mid-2020. Overall, QTS expects the 92-acre site could accommodate five such data centers with a combined space of approximately 1.5 million gross square feet that affords more than 1 million square feet of leasable capacity and more than 250 MW of gross power capacity.
The first data center will be 158,000 square feet, with 85,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 27 MW of gross power capacity. QTS describes the customer who will take approximately 4.5 MW the capacity as a “global software-as-a-service provider.” The company expects to have additional capacity in the facility available for lease during the second half of this year. QTS anticipates that the facility will be powered totally by renewable energy resources.
The new facility will be linked to the Hillsboro Ring, a fiber-optic network that comprises several ultra-high-count fiber-optic rings that interconnect 14 data centers. The Hillsboro Ring also provides the dark fiber access to nearby cable landing stations for connection to transpacific submarine cable systems. These submarine networks offer connectivity to such locations as China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, the Philippines, and Alaska, with New Caledonia being added in 2021 (see, for example, "Hawaiki Submarine Cable taps Peak 10 + ViaWest's Brookwood data center for U.S. PoP").
"QTS is committed to be an early mover at scale providing both hyperscale and hybrid colocation solutions in the fastest growing west coast data center market in the country," said Chad Williams, CEO of QTS. "We believe the strategic importance of the Hillsboro market will continue to grow as customers focus their data center infrastructure strategies around low-cost markets with strong access to power and a multitude of connectivity options, like Hillsboro. We are pleased to add sellable capacity in a new strategic market to further support and expand our ecosystem of more than 1200 customers across our footprint."
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