CHARLOTTE, NC – July 11, 2023 – Flexential, a leading provider of data center colocation, cloud, connectivity and data protection, today outlined plans to significantly grow capacity on its national FlexAnywhere™ Platform this year, with the construction of a new 36MW phased development at its Atlanta-Douglasville, Georgia campus. This development adds a new facility on the campus bolstering the 22.5MW project announced in the fourth quarter of 2022. The first phases of the 22.5MW facility will be available for customers this year.
Flexential also today announced that it aims to complete the first phase of its new Hillsboro 4 facility in Portland by fall of 2023 and outlined plans to break ground on its fifth facility in the market. The expansion will add two new data centers to the Hillsboro market and supports Flexential’s goal to grow capacity on the FlexAnywhere™ Platform by an additional 54 MW in Oregon.
The new projects will leverage Flexential’s latest highly efficient sustainable design and will target operating at 1.4 Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) and zero Water Usage Efficiency (WUE), as required to qualify for funding under Flexential’s Green Finance Framework. Additionally, Flexential’s fifth generation design is optimized to support the rapidly growing power and density requirements of AI and GPU-driven high performance compute deployments.
The highly connected Atlanta metro area is home to health, IT, telecom, and internet security companies and is an attractive destination for mission critical enterprise workloads. Flexential has had a presence in Atlanta for over 20 years with three interconnected data centers within three different business regions, which will be complemented by the latest planned Atlanta-Douglasville expansions.
In Portland, the new Hillsboro 4 and 5 development projects are strategically located adjacent to Flexential’s largest development to date, the 36MW Hillsboro 3 data center. The first phase of Hillsboro 4 is on track to be available for customers by fall of 2023. Planning for Hillsboro 5, a 36MW development is underway and will support expansion of Flexential’s rapidly growing customer base in the market.