H5 Data Centers, an edge data centre provider has acquired seven data centres across the US from vXchnge.
These data centres are located Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Secaucus (New Jersey), St. Louis and St. Paul, the company said. The seven-site acquisition includes over 250,000 square feet of data centre space and more than 150 unique customers, including communications carriers, Fortune 500 companies, content distribution networks and cloud service providers.
“The demand for edge data center space continues to grow,” said Josh Simms, founder and CEO of H5 Data Centres. “Acquiring this vXchnge portfolio of data centres gives H5 Data Centers an opportunity to expand our portfolio to 20 markets, deepen relationships with customers and continue to build and grow interconnected digital ecosystems.”
H5 Data Centers is one of the leading privately-owned data centre operators in the United States with over 2 million square feet of data center space under management. The company designs and engineers flexible and scalable data centre solutions to address the core infrastructure and edge requirements of its customers. H5 Data Centers operates data centers in Albuquerque, Ashburn, Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Phoenix, Quincy, San Antonio, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, and Seattle.
The US continues to be one of the hottest destinations for data centres. According to research from Cushman & Wakefield on the top 10 markets for data centres, 6 out of the 10 locations were from the US.
These included Northern Virginia, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Seattle and New York/ New Jersey. A combination of large market size, robust fibre, attractive incentives, low cost power, and the largest development pipeline places the US on top of the list, according to the report.