Data center company
DC BLOX has announced it is developing a new data center campus starting August 2018. DC BLOX, which has headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, was established in 2014. The company builds Tier 3 data centers with a particular focus on the Southeastern United States. Its centers are connected using a “high-speed optical network” and the services it provides extend to cloud services such as cloud storage, colocation, managed IT services, and network connectivity. DC BLOX’s data centers are in Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tensessee. The facility under development is in Birmingham, Alabama.
The new 27-acre technology and innovation campus is located in central Birmingham and designed to “drive the connected digital economy in Birmingham and all of Alabama”. Construction will take place over 10 years and could represent a $785 million investment for DC BLOX. The facility will have the same “highly secure, modular design” as its previous centers. Phase 1 of the project will provide 31,000 square feet of data center space that will be “configurable up to 5MW of customer capacity by early 2019”.
“The Birmingham data center campus will unquestionably be our flagship property, capable of scaling to over 200,000 square feet of secure, government-grade data center space,” explained DC BLOX’s CEO Jeff Uphues. “We believe this site will be a highly compelling alternative in the Southeast to Atlanta for enterprise, hyperscale cloud, Software-as-a-Service, government, network and content providers. It’s our focus to create a multi-purpose innovation campus with collaborative workspaces worthy of housing global technology companies and academia dedicated to research and collaboration.”
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