The company, @Lightspeed, is an undertaking by Charles Johnson, who as the University of Colorado Buffalos' quarterback helped win a national football championship in 1991, and Alfred Williams, who played with the Denver Broncos in two Super Bowl championships. The team is moving into a building at East 43rd Avenue and Brighton Boulevard in an industrial area in northeast Denver.
The first phase will open in July and will include 20,000 sf for customers to house their network equipment and connect to a super-fast Internet backbone. By early 2002, the facility will have about 115,000 sf available, making it one of the largest facilities of its kind west of the Mississippi River, they say.
Johnson is the company's CEO, as well as a radio talk show host. Williams is an executive vice president and a former defensive end for the Broncos.
The privately held company isn't releasing financial backers or the amount of capital required for the data center. But similar facilities cost as much as $300 per sf to build, which would place @Lightspeed's cost at more than $50 million.
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