A subsidiary of American Tower Corporation and hybrid IT solutions provider – CoreSite, recently acquired a modern, purpose-built data center in Doral, Florida. The data center named MI2 spans 103,000 square feet and is located at 2100 NW 84th Avenue. CoreSite already owns and operates a 43,000-square-foot data center known as MI1 in downtown Miami located at 2115 NW 22nd Street.
The MI2 data center is a freestanding facility in America’s Gateway Park built to be capable of withstanding a Category 5 hurricane with a 185-mph-gust-rated roof. CoreSite will connect MI2 to its MI1 data center. This will offer customers better access to a more robust ecosystem along with the fiber providers already available in the facility. Integration of MI2 to CoreSite’s Miami data center campus, will provide businesses with more IT infrastructure options and enable the company to expand its footprint in the growing Miami market.
“Miami serves as a key conduit for businesses to manage and grow operations in both North and South America. This expansion in the CoreSite Miami data center campus will provide the hybrid IT solution enterprises turn to for secure and scalable connectivity to South America from the U.S,” said Juan Font, President, and CEO of CoreSite and SVP of U.S. Tower. “We are excited to build on our proven record of operational excellence in the greater Miami area where we have been operating since 2006, offering optimal customer experience, critical security and business continuity support, and access to cloud and network providers.”
CoreSite’s expanding footprints
The MI2 data center has critical building infrastructure with major systems that are concurrently maintainable. CoreSite’s MI1 is located downtown and delivers ultra-low latency to greater Miami and South American network points of presence (POPs), which is an ideal interconnection site for content caching.
CoreSite’s expanded Miami data center campus is expected to be almost 150,000 sqft. It will help drive global digital transformation for businesses across all industries in this region. It will enable customers to leverage the Open Cloud Exchange. This is CoreSite’s leading interconnection platform providing superior connectivity and a robust and interconnected partner ecosystem required to reach new markets, scale on-demand rapidly, minimize total operation costs, and speed up IT modernization.
CoreSite’s acquisition of MI2 is a part of its ongoing effort to add large-scale, purpose-built capacity and better connectivity options in its existing markets. This, along with the addition of two data centers in Atlanta and one in Orlando earlier in 2022, strengthens CoreSite’s Southeastern regional footprint. These assets getting included in the CoreSite data center portfolio enhances CoreSite’s offering. CoreSite now has 28 data centers across 10 markets, over 450 networks, 23 native cloud onramps, and more than 35,000 interconnections.
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