DataBank has announced plans to establish a data center campus in the New York City metro area to augment its existing presence there.
The provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services has purchased 34 acres in Orangeburg, NY, for the purpose; the site will be the home of the company’s fifth data center in the New York metro market.
The property in Orangeburg includes a utility-owned substation capable of providing up to 45 MW of utility power.
DataBank plans to build a 200,000-square-foot data center with 150,000 square feet of raised flooring that offers 30 MW of critical power via five 6 MW data halls.
Databank notes that the property also can support expansion facilities, including an additional substation.
Databank says it will connect the new data center to its other sites in the region, including those in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” neighborhood and in New Jersey (60 Hudson St., 111 Eighth Ave. and 165 Halsey St.).
“The investment in this new campus responds to the New York City metro area’s need for colocation, connectivity, and cloud services, solidifying its status as a prime location for enterprise-class data centers,” commented Raul K. Martynek, DataBank’s CEO. “With this acquisition, DataBank will bring to the nation’s largest market both high-value IT operations jobs and the reliable IT infrastructure our customers need to create a limitless digital future for their business.”
“The site will be ideal for hyperscale-compute providers and web-scale content and application providers to expand workloads in the densely-populated metropolitan area,” predicted Stephen Callahan, senior vice president of sales for DataBank.