Digital Realty hosted the grand opening of 105 Cabot St. on Wednesday, June 5th. Located 12 miles from Boston, 105 Cabot St. is the first purpose-built data center building in the Boston market in more than 10 years. The three-story, 130,000 s/f building was master-planned to accommodate five separate Turn-Key Flex data centers. Digital Realty's Turn-Key Flex solution is a modular approach to delivering secure, enterprise quality data center space to meet customers' just-in-time requirements. Designed to provide maximum flexibility, reliability and efficiency, each Turn-Key Flex facility comes fully commissioned with its own dedicated electrical and mechanical infrastructure. Utilizing Digital Realty's proprietary POD Architecture and extensive supply chain, Digital Realty's next generation Turn-Key Flex data center solution is designed for the future and ready today.
With 10 megawatts of redundant utility power, the energy efficient building is designed to be concurrently maintainable for all key infrastructure components. The overall design of the building incorporates outside air economization, which translates to approximately 6,000 hours of free cooling per year. In addition, 105 Cabot St. is part of a data center campus that includes 128 First Ave.—home to many production data center environments serving the healthcare, insurance, financial and technology verticals. The two facilities total 450,000 s/f with over 200,000 s/f of data center raised-floor space and each has a tremendous amount of fiber connectivity to major area locations.
According to IDC, data is forecast to grow 50 times by 2020, a prediction that is encouraging enterprises to transform their businesses to accommodate this boom in data as well as the move to the cloud, thereby increasing the need for data center space as businesses look to house ever more offsite. The new Cabot St. data center highlights Digital Realty's commitment to meeting the needs of Boston-area organizations, including managed service providers, technology services and biotechnology companies, and universities and hospitals/healthcare organizations, for wholesale and colocation data center options in-state.