NTT Communications and RagingWire to Invest $160 Million in New Ashburn VA3 Data Center in the Heart of 'Data Center Alley'
December 05 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Massive Ashburn, Virginia data center campus
on 76.5 acre site accommodates six buildings
RagingWire Data Centers, the nation’s premier data center
provider, and its parent company NTT Communications (NTT Com), the
ICT solutions and international communications business within the
NTT Group (NYSE: NTT), announced today that they are investing $160
million to build the new Ashburn VA3 Data Center in the heart of
the famed ‘Data Center Alley’ in Ashburn, Virginia, the top data
center market in the world. The Ashburn VA3 Data Center represents
phase one of RagingWire’s massive Ashburn Data Center Campus
development which can accommodate six buildings on the 76.5 acre
site in Ashburn. The VA3 Data Center with 245,000 square feet of
space and 16 megawatts of power, is scheduled to be available by
the end of 2017.
RagingWire and NTT Communications made this announcement at the
2016 Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure, and Operations Management
Conference being held in Las Vegas from December 5-8. The event is
one of the largest and most insightful conferences for data center
leaders. This is RagingWire’s fifth year as a sponsor of the
Gartner conference.
“The Ashburn VA3 Data Center raises the bar for data center
colocation in the largest data center market in the world,” said
George Macricostas, Chairman, CEO and founder of RagingWire Data
Centers. “VA3 offers mission-critical performance, flexible
configurations for hyperscale cloud and enterprise deployments,
exceptional customer amenities and global integration with NTT
Com’s growing portfolio of over 140 data centers around the
world.”
The VA3 Data Center joins RagingWire’s VA1 and VA2 data centers,
which also are in Ashburn. The combination of VA1, VA2 and VA3
creates a data center footprint of over a half million square feet
of space and 44.4 megawatts of power, and includes on-site security
officers and multi-layered security systems, highly efficient
cooling and carrier-neutral telecommunications, and direct
connectivity to top cloud providers and other data centers in Data
Center Alley. On a wider scale, VA3 will grow RagingWire’s existing
1.2-million-square-foot U.S data center platform, which includes
CA1, CA2, and CA3 in Northern California and TX1 in Dallas, Texas,
as well as NTT Com’s global data center services platform operated
under the Nexcenter TM brand.
“NTT Communications is proud to be investing in RagingWire’s VA3
Data Center and Ashburn Data Center Campus,” said Tetsuya Shoji,
President and CEO of NTT Communications. “Virginia is the top data
center market in the world and a strategic location for NTT Com as
we expand our data center capacity. RagingWire’s VA3 Data Center
will be a key platform for the NTT family of companies to deliver
global information and communications (ICT) solutions that enable
our customers to digitalize their businesses.”
The investment in the VA3 Data Center by RagingWire and NTT
Communications is significant for the Virginia economy not only for
the jobs it creates, but also because it supports the exemption
from the Virginia Sales and Use Tax on qualified equipment
purchases by RagingWire and its customers. This exemption has
resulted in millions of dollars of savings for RagingWire customers
and encouraged companies to establish or expand their IT and
business operations in Virginia.
“Thank you to NTT Communications and RagingWire for this major
investment in the Ashburn VA3 Data Center, and their commendable
economic growth in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” said Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe. “Virginia is the top data center market
in the world. Together, NTT and RagingWire are bolstering
Virginia’s leadership in the data center and high technology
sectors, supporting a diverse economy in the Commonwealth,
generating tax revenues, and creating valuable job opportunities. I
recently met with company executives in Tokyo on my Pacific Rim
Marketing Mission, and look forward to strengthening this important
relationship as we build the new Virginia economy."
The VA3 Data Center will realize new levels of availability,
flexibility and global reach. The facility features a new flexible
electrical design that builds on RagingWire’s patented and
award-winning 2N+2TM power delivery architecture to offer wholesale
customers that purchase an entire vault the option of dedicated
electrical solutions including N+1 and 2N. Vaults will be available
in increments of two to four megawatts, and there will be space and
power available for multi-rack cages that can grow over time. The
campus will have three diverse fiber entrances, reliable and cost
effective utility power from Dominion Virginia Power, a
high-security gated entrance and anti-climb perimeter fence, and
world-class customer amenities including lounges, breakrooms, a
game room, a gym, locker rooms and showers, conference rooms, and
office space. VA3 will also offer extensive, carrier-neutral
network connectivity services to other data centers and cloud
providers.
About RagingWire Data CentersRagingWire Data Centers
designs, builds, and operates mission critical data centers that
deliver 100% availability, high-density power, flexible
configurations, carrier neutral connectivity, and superior customer
service. The company has 97 MW of critical IT load spread across
1.2 million square feet of data center infrastructure in Northern
California, Ashburn, Virginia, and Dallas, Texas, with significant
growth plans in these locations and other top North American data
center markets. As part of the NTT Communications group, RagingWire
is one of the largest wholesale data center providers in the world
with a global network of over 140 data centers operated by NTT
Communications under the Nexcenter™ brand and one of the most
financially strong companies in the data center industry. For more
information visit www.ragingwire.com.
About NTT Communications CorporationNTT Communications
provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to
optimize the information and communications technology (ICT)
environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the
company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global
tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching
196 countries/regions, and over 140 secure data centers
worldwide.www.ntt.com | Twitter@NTT Com | Facebook@NTT Com |
LinkedIn@NTT Com
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