SAN JOSE—Due to the continued and increased use of cloud data storage, data centers continue to be in demand here and in other parts of the country. A couple of Silicon Valley examples have either opened or been announced for completion in the coming year.

The global interconnection and data center company, Equinix, recently celebrated the opening of its newest International Business Exchange co-location facility, known as SV10, located adjacent to SV1 and SV5 located on Great Oaks in South San Jose. SV10 is a nearly 195,000-square-foot facility that provides colocation service to Silicon Valley tech companies. This is one of 13 Equinix data centers in Silicon Valley.

Phase one will provide 37,000 square feet of colocation capacity, about 930 cabinets, with capacity for 2,820 cabinets, according to San Jose Office of Economic Development. Equinix's SV10 is part of a $122M build-out, part of a $400 million investment in its Great Oaks facility, with capacity for future expansion.

SV10 is a green building, seeking to obtain LEED Silver certification, and features a state-of-the-art cooling system that utilizes outside air currents that can keep building cool even during a heat wave, without needing to run air conditioning, GlobeSt.com learns. Nine MW onsite fuel cell systems built locally by Bloom Energy provide approximately 50% of the building's energy consumption. Equinix has a long-term goal of using 100% clean and renewable energy for its global platform, and continues to make advancements in the way it designs, builds and operates its data centers with high energy-efficiency standards.

In addition, plans are in the works for an expansion of the Digital Realty Silicon Valley Connected Campus. The data center provider is expanding, with a facility at 3205 Alfred St. in Santa Clara.

The new facility will offer two suites totaling six megawatts of critical IT load in support of customer growth requirements within the supply-constrained Santa Clara metro area. Digital Realty expects to invest approximately $75 million in the new facility, which is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2018.

“The expansion of our Silicon Valley Connected Campus demonstrates our commitment to supporting customer growth,” A. William Stein, Digital Realty chief executive officer, says. “The new facility offers a comprehensive set of data center solutions, from single-cabinet colocation and interconnection requirements, all the way up to multi-megawatt deployments. This flexibility helps reduce complexity and accelerate business growth by meeting customers' needs for space, power and connectivity.”

Digital Realty's existing Silicon Valley portfolio consists of 17 properties totaling more than 2 million square feet with 99 megawatts of IT load, strategically located on major fiber routes in close proximity to three Silicon Valley power substations. Digital Realty's existing holdings in Silicon Valley are almost fully leased.

“This new addition to Digital Realty's Silicon Valley Connected Campus builds on the foundation the company has established, giving enterprises, network operators and service providers the opportunity and the expertise they require to privately interconnect with critical ecosystems like the cloud,” said industry analyst Kelly Morgan of 451 Research.