Seattle-based Sabey Data Center Properties plans to build a 490,000-square-foot data center campus on 38 acres the company acquired in Ashburn, VA, near Dulles International Airport.
Sabey’s in-house construction company will begin construction of Intergate.Ashburn in late summer. The company said the data center will significantly expand its national footprint and provide direct access to all network exchanges in the region.
Sabey has been busy of late, recently announcing the purchase of 375 Pearl Street, a 40-megawatt, about 1 million-square-foot data center in New York City that will open in 2012. The company is building a 520,000-square-foot campus in Quincy, WA. The company completed another data center in central Washington, a 438,000-square-foot facility in Columbia, in December 2008. The project is fully leased to four investment grade tenants.
The Ashburn campus’s three buildings will offer turnkey and powered-shell data center space in both multi and single-tenant lay-outs. The site will be served with over 70 megawatts of power, accommodating tenants with varying design challenges and power requirements.
Northern Virginia has been a magnet for high-tech businesses and data center providers supporting both commercial and government enterprises, and is the second-largest data center market on the East Coast after the New York. Sabey hopes to attract interest from tenants in the government, social media and health care sectors, as well as content and cloud service providers.
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