ATLANTA
and CORK, Ireland -- T5 Data Centers, innovators in providing
secure, customizable, hyperscale computing environments for
enterprise companies, has entered the European data center market
with today's announcement of a new joint venture with JCD Group of
Cork, Ireland to develop the T5@Ireland data center campus. This is
T5's first data center outside the United States and will look to
take advantage of the coming political changes in the European Union
(Brexit and associated EU data sovereignty laws), and telecom and
power infrastructure advantages in Cork to serve a growing need for
companies seeking new data centers serving European and U.S.
customers.
The
new T5@Ireland campus is a 32.5-acre, 46 MW dedicated data center
campus with full planning permission for two enterprise facilities of
7 MW each, and a cloud targeted facility of 32 MW. The site is
carrier rich and will have direct access to Ireland's five largest
domestic fiber carriers, as well as subsea cable connectivity to the
United States, United Kingdom and Europe via GTT Express (lowest
latency between EU and US), GTT North & South, (secondary routes
between US, UK and Europe), Aquacomm's AEC-1 Cable (Ireland to NYC).
Building I will be a 7 MW, 84,000 square foot facility and is due for
completion in Q1, 2019, which will coincide with the landing of the
Ireland France Subsea Cable (IFC-1), the first cable to directly link
Ireland to mainland Europe. Building II will be a 97,000-square-foot,
7 MW data center, and Building III will be a 323,000-square-foot, 32
MW data center. As with all T5 facilities, each data center can be
customized to accommodate any enterprise-grade or cloud computing
deployment.
In
addition to new EU data sovereignty laws which could drive data
center traffic from the UK following Brexit, construction of
T5@Ireland comes at an opportune time relative to power availability
and telecom connectivity within Ireland. Dublin has historically been
the preferred data hub of Ireland, but the region is experiencing a
restriction on data center growth due to lack of adequate power.
T5@Ireland is fed by 60 MW of power from an adjacent dual fed
substation, and can deliver this power within expedited delivery
deployments of new facilities. These and other market factors are
driving more data center operations to strategic locations such as
Cork.
"Now
is the perfect time for T5 to build T5@Ireland as our springboard
into Europe," said Pete Marin, CEO & President of T5 Data
Centers. "Cork is a growing technology hub with a great talent
pool and robust infrastructure. We expect T5@Ireland to attract
European customers seeking a new location for their enterprise
operations, and for U.S. companies seeking a European data center
presence. This is the next phase of T5's global expansion strategy
and shows our commitment to serve our customers wherever they need
us."
T5@Ireland
Building I is a Class A data center designed to meet LEED Silver
requirements. It features block-redundant 1.75 MW electrical lineups
and can accommodate densities from 5 to 25 KW per rack. The Cork
location also offers ideal climate conditions for indirect, free air
cooling, and the building is equipped with Liebert DSE cooling for
modular growth.
As
with all T5 data centers, T5@Ireland will be managed by the T5
Facilities Management (T5FM) team. T5FM is responsible for T5 Data
Centers' record of 100 percent uptime, and serves as an extension to
our customers' IT staff, offering facilities operations and
management, remote hands, and IT consulting services.
About
T5 Data Centers
T5
Data Centers (T5) is a leading national data center owner and
operator, committed to delivering customizable, scalable data centers
that provide a "Forever On" computing environment to power
mission critical business applications. T5 Data Centers provides
enterprise colocation data center services to organizations across
North America using proven, best-in-class technology and techniques
to design and develop facilities that deliver the lowest possible
total cost of operations for its clients. T5 currently has
business-critical data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles,
Dallas, Portland, Charlotte, Chicago, New York, Colorado, and
Ireland. All of T5's data center projects are purpose-built
facilities featuring robust design, redundant and reliable power and
telecommunications, and have 24-hour staff to support
mission-critical computing applications.
For
more information, visit http://www.t5datacenters.com/Ireland.
Contact:
Aaron
Wangenheim
T5
Data Centers
+1
(415) 292-7700
About
JCD Group
JCD
Group is one of Ireland's leading privately held development
companies. Formed in 1996 the company has financed, developed and
continue to manage over 1.45 million square feet of commercial
property in Ireland. The company headquartered in Cork, Ireland, has
an unrivaled track record of working with Multinational companies and
were one of the few companies that continued to deliver developments
of scale in Ireland throughout the recession. Since 2013 JCD has
completed €150 million in deal transactions with institutional and
private investment funds such as: Irish Life; Green REIT and Real
I.S.
For
more information, visit http://www.jcdgroup.ie.
Contact:
Mark
Devereux
JCD
Group
+353
21 461 4726
