Work could begin later this year on the building of a new data center set to be larger than an average-sized Walmart store.
The data center development company Flexential, which has offices in Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina, wants to build a new facility in the Denver neighborhood of Parker, some 20 miles to the southeast of the Mile High City.
The building, which will go up on 17 acres, will measure exactly 249,000 square feet, and will represent the company’s fifth data center in the metro area.
In a statement, Flexential chief executive officer Chris Downie said the company is currently “expanding its data center presence across the nation,” adding that growth in the Denver market “highlights our role in leading industry innovation and meeting market needs.”
Flexential has long been active in the southeast but has also made a name for itself in such Western enclaves as Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, and Salt Lake City. Last fall the site Data Center Frontier reported on Flexential’s latest national expansion plans, seeing its presence “in a total of 41 data centers in 19 markets.”
The company specializes in a wide variety of data center facility services including colocation, and private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions, as well as data protection, among other things.
By Garry Boulard
