Peak 10 building Tampa data center

TAMPA -Peak 10 Inc. has started construction on a 60,000-square-foot data center facility in Tampa. The Charlotte, N.C.-based I.T. infrastructure and cloud-services company purchased 6.88 acres for the project on Parkedge Drive in Hidden River Corporate Park late last years for $1.1 million.

The new two-story facility will be the company's first to be designed and constructed completely from the ground up. It will increase Peak 10's Tampa footprint to more than 129,000 square feet with three separate facilities, and to roughly 230,000 square feet statewide.

Peak 10 says the data center will allow it to serve up to 600 additional customers.

At completion, the new hurricane-rated facility will offer 23,600 square feet of office and support space, and 36,400 square feet of data center space. The project will be built out into three separate data centers over time with the first data center (phase one) expected to open in early 2015. Phases two and three will be built out over a five-year period.

The facility is located outside of the area's flood zone and at a high elevation and will be constructed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

“This investment speaks volumes about our potential for I.T. growth, and supports recent community developments like the establishment of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida,” Mark Sharpe, chairman of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, says in a press release.

While the total development cost was not released, Peak 10 did confirm that it was a multimillion-dollar investment.

Peak 10 operates 24 data centers in the United States, including six in Florida.