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American Tower's (AMT) Subsidiary CoreSite Announces Expansion

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American Tower Corporation’s (AMT - Free Report) subsidiary, CoreSite, is making significant strides in meeting the escalating demands of the digital landscape. The recent announcement of major expansions in its New York and Denver data center campuses underscores the company's commitment to providing cutting-edge hybrid IT solutions. The new facilities will add 685,000 square feet of data center space to the company’s portfolio.

The most recent addition to CoreSite's New York campus, referred to as NY3, has obtained final permitting for the construction of an 85,000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 15 critical megawatts (CMW). Additionally, CoreSite received conceptual approval for a Denver market expansion, featuring a three-building data center campus covering approximately 600,000 square feet and boasting a capacity of 60 CMW.

One of CoreSite's flagship projects is the purpose-built NY3 data center adjacent to its existing NY2 facility. This expansion, comprising an 85,000-square-foot facility, with 15 critical megawatts (CMW) of capacity, is a response to the burgeoning needs of public and private cloud providers, enterprises, and network and service providers. The construction of NY3 is expected to be completed in fourth-quarter 2024.

The New York expansion is a strategic move, reinforcing CoreSite's presence on the Eastern Seaboard and enhancing its position as one of the best-connected and most scalable data center campuses in the region. This development aligns with CoreSite's mission to help enterprises enhance application performance, reduce total cost of ownership and accelerate time to market.

In Denver, CoreSite's expansion plans include a three-building data center development on a 15-acre site. This ambitious project aims to meet the increasing capacity and power demands in the Denver market, where CoreSite already operates DE1 and DE2 data centers. The new campus, featuring an on-site substation, will provide 18 CMW of capacity across three floors in the first facility.

Brian Warren, CoreSite's SVP of Development and Product Engineering, emphasized the company's commitment to best practices in data center design and construction. The campus model is driven by customer demand, as well as the surge in the adoption of artificial intelligence and other high-density, high-performance computing applications.

Such efforts offer American Tower the opportunity to capitalize on the CoreSite's highly interconnected data center facilities and bank on the robust demand from enterprises, the cloud, network and IT service providers in the major U.S. markets.

Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have gained 13.2% in the past three months, outperforming the industry’s growth of 3.6%.

 

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