Company looking to build second site 20 miles west of Virginia Beach site
Virginia data center firm Globalinx is planning to develop a second data center site near Norfolk, Virginia.
During a Portsmouth Broadband Authority meeting this week, Globalinx revealed plans to develop a backup data center in Portsmouth, a city some 20 miles west of its existing Virginia Beach site.
Chris Mitchell, director of sales at Globalinx Datacenters, told the authority the company was building a data center within the city, but didn’t provide further details on capacity or timelines. The company has met with city officials to explore potential sites, and Mitchell said it was exploring using 700 Port Centre Parkway as a data center.
Globalinx currently operates a data center and cable landing campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in close proximity to the Telxius Cable Landing Station (CLS).
Announced in 2016, work on the project started around 2018, and the first phase came online in 2019.
The company originally set about converting an existing warehouse building at 1632 Corporate Landing Parkway into a carrier-neutral colocation facility. The 21.5-acre site is set to be built out in four phases and total 287,000 sq ft (26,665 sqm) and up to 30MW at full build-out.
Telxius’ CLS is located nearby at 1900 Corporate Landing Parkway and is home to the Brusa and Marea cables linking the US to South America and Europe, respectively, as well as the Dunant system.
The company announced earlier this year that it was planning a 30,000 sq ft (2,785 sqm) expansion to the campus in order to host four more cables at the site.
EdgeConneX operates a data center in nearby Norfolk, totaling 19,620 sq ft (1,820 sqm) and 750kW. PointOne is also planning a development around Virginia Beach. Local technology firm SimIs was planning a 5MW facility in nearby Suffolk around 2022, but it is unclear if the project ever came to fruition.
