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Data center operator Equinix (equinix.com) announced on Wednesday that it has opened new data centers in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas, and released details of plans for a new facility in the Chicago area and expansion in the New York market.
Equinix says the expansions will support the significant customer growth expected in the company's key markets. The company's 2006 data center openings, combined with the planned Chicago build, represent an increase of 35 percent in the company's overall cabinet capacity.
“Driven by the proliferation of IP-based applications, from music downloads to content-rich Web sites to businesses exchanging large amounts of data, the growth rate for colocation services nearly doubled in 2005, and is expected to experience double-digit growth in both 2006 and 2007 when the worldwide market is expected to comprise $3.5 billion,” says Andy Schroepfer, founder of Tier 1 Research. “Equinix has significantly outpaced this growth rate over the past several years and has risen to become the current worldwide market leader.”
Equinix says the Chicago expansion center, located adjacent to its current downtown Chicago Internet Business Exchange center, adds approximately 1,100 cabinets to the existing IBX. The Los Angeles facility opened Wednesday, marks the company's third IBX center in the Los Angeles area, providing the company with the means to respond to strong customer demand in the area.
The planned Chicago-area expansion would add a third IBX near the Chicago O'Hare Airport. Equinix plans to purchase the site in early June, and will develop it in multiple phases. The first building will accommodate 3,800 cabinets, of which 2,500 will be built out in phase one. At capacity, the facility is expected to generate roughly $80 million in annual revenue.
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