Peak 10's Atlanta Plans

Charlotte-based Peak 10 is planning to create a data center campus in the affluent metro Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta by re-engineering a 110k SF building and acquiring enough property for two more data centers in the coming years. (So if your hard drive is full, head to Alpharetta.)

"Initially, we'll be turning 25k SF into 18k to 20k SF of data space," says Peak 10's CEO David Jones. The $60M project should provide Peak 10 with up to eight years of capacity, David tells us. "It's a piece of property that's fantastic" for a data center campus environment.

Peak 10 serves mid-market customers, and has seen demand for cloud services explode in recent years, David says. (Which is either a sign of the future of business or that everyone is playing Call of Duty.) Also in the Atlanta market, the company operates data center space at 2775 Northwoods Pkwy in Norcross. With the new Alpharetta campus, Peak 10 will have some 100k SF of data center space in metro Atlanta. "We could have upwards of 500 to 600 customers there over time," he says.

Where next for Peak 10? David clues us in to the company's growth plans. Right now, it's also developing a new 66k SF data center in Tampa. And it's eyeing the upper Midwest for future growth as well. "We're already in Ohio, and we could expand there. Maybe Indiana," David says. Currently, Peak 10 operates 23 data centers in 10 cities. (Intensity in 10 cities, to borrow a phrase.)