Zayo to increase Las Vegas data center footprint

zColo, the data center and colocation business of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO), says it will increase the size of its Las Vegas data center by approximately 10,000 square feet. The expansion will bring the data center's total amount of billable space to 28,000 square feet.

The facility is located near the McCarran International Airport. The expansion to the data center, which the company acquired from MarquisNet in 2012, comes because the current capacity is fully booked, zColo says. Based on these current contracted bookings, zColo estimates it has achieved a greater than 60% unlevered return on its initial investment.

The Las Vegas data center provides access to Zayo's fiber-optic network in the U.S. and Europe and its portfolio of bandwidth services, including dark fiber, wavelengths, Ethernet, and IP. The data center also offers interconnections to nine major carriers. Customers include not only Nevada businesses, but California businesses who use it for disaster recovery.

"Companies need one and often two back-up data centers to safeguard their mission-critical data in the event of a natural disaster or other major outage," said Stephanie Copeland, president of zColo. "A majority of our current customers are California businesses from diverse sectors who need disaster recovery options, and we expect to attract new customers with similar needs."

The new space should become available late this month, the company expects.

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