Data Center: Digital Realty Trust Buys Santa Clara Data Center
By Justin Lee for Web Host Industry Review
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com) announced on Tuesday it has acquired a 40,300 square foot shell building located at 1725 Comstock Street in Santa Clara, California, next to several of the company’s existing data centers.
The new property brings the company’s total rentable footprint to 15.1 million square feet, which includes 1.9 million square feet of space held for redevelopment.
Earlier this year, Digital Realty’s 1525 Comstock data center property in Santa Clara earned LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council.
“This acquisition is consistent with our strategy of adding additional redevelopment inventory to markets where we see strong demand for our turn-key data center product,” says Scott Peterson, senior vice president of acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The building is located contiguous to several of our facilities in Santa Clara, giving us and our customers the benefit of significant operating economies of scale, including the ability to deliver our turn-key product quickly and cost effectively.”
The company plans to build out and complete all three turn-key data center PODs by year-end 2010.
