A year later, Exodus asked for another 95,000 sf and, sensing a need, plans for the office space were drop kicked. Sabey moved full-throttle into the data storage facilities business. Now, an additional three buildings totaling 600,000 sf are in the works at Seattle-based Sabey's 72-acre Intergate Seattle development in Tukwila.

Once complete, total facilities there will total 2.14 million sf of telecom, data storage and co-location space. Sabey COO Laurent Poole tells GlobeSt.com that JP Morgan says Intergate currently has 5.4% of the world's leased data center space. Based on that, Pool believes Intergate is the largest leasable data storage facilities development in the world.Moreover, in a move some experts are speculating could make it the largest lessor of data-storage facilities in the world, Sabey is taking its Intergate concept national on the back of Exodus and newfound clients such as AboveNet Communications, AT&T, Sprint and Verio, which are rapidly entering new markets and in need of a company that knows what they want.

Poole tells GlobeSt.com that new facilities already are under development in Los Angeles (420,000 sf) and Denver (400,000 sf when complete). Also, negotiations are pending for 400,000 sf in Santa Clara CA, and 200,000 sf in both Boston and the Dulles/Herndon area of VA. "We're trying to make facility choices easy for the big boys," says Poole. "If they want to expand, there will be an Intergate facility there for them."