The expansion includes upgrades to the facility’s electrical power infrastructure and increases colocation capacity by converting floors six-through-nine into usable data centre space.
The expansion supports the increase in demand for interconnected edge data centres, and comes after 1623 Farnam’s initial $10 million expansion last year to build out the facility’s fifth-floor space.
“Our prime location in Omaha, Nebraska is at the nexus of the country’s east-west and north-south cable routes, making it important that we enable sufficient interconnection capabilities for our customers and partners,” said Todd Cushing, President of 1623 Farnam.
“We are also increasing our capacity with build outs to the sixth through ninth floors of the building to better accommodate existing and new customers.”
The new construction will upgrade the facility’s interconnection capabilities by adding additional cabling, vaults and new redundant electrical plans that will support up to 8MW of power to the facility.
“There has been increasing demand in the data centre space, especially now in the current global climate,” said Bill Severn, Executive Vice President of 1623 Farnam. “This build is being carried out largely with our customers and partners in mind.”
