Facility Recently Acquired by Houston-based Data Journey
MONTGOMERY, Texas, July 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst massive power outages
across Houston following Hurricane
Beryl, a former nuclear bomb shelter turned data center is ensuring
that essential data used by agencies and major corporations
responsible for mission-critical and life-saving operations remains
intact should their primary systems fail.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, the Montgomery, TX data center known as the
Westland "Bunker" is seeing a significant increase in activity as
agencies closely monitor their back-up systems in the event their
primary facilities are impacted by a sudden power interruption.
Perched at the highest point in Montgomery County at 550 Club Drive, just
south of Highway 105, the Bunker houses an underground data center
roughly two floors below ground. The facility has been in operation
for approximately 20 years and can accommodate an additional 45 MW
of computing power for potential tenants.
Moreover, the Westland Bunker is located in the MISO energy
grid and is serviced by Entergy. The facility is not on the ERCOT
(Texas) energy grid serviced by
CenterPoint and therefore is not subject to power interruptions
experienced throughout the Houston
area following a storm or major freeze.
The facility is operated by Data Journey, a Houston- based digital infrastructure private
equity firm, managed and owned locally.
Since it recently acquired the center, the new ownership has
received a large volume of inquiries from corporate clients that
recognize the benefit for operational redundancy to house their
critical business continuity on a separate energy grid.
The facility has provided 100% uptime and access during
Hurricanes Ike, Harvey and Beryl in addition to 100% uptime during
Winter Storm Uri in February 2021. By offering office space with
showers and kitchen facilities along with the data center space,
companies are able to send critical employees to work in an air
conditioned, fully connected space even if the rest of Houston is without power and connectivity.
"The Bunker and its surrounding facilities have proven its
strategic positioning for our present tenants and future tenants
that need that data center reliability and redundancy," says
Dr. Ishnella Azad, managing partner of Data Journey.
In addition to a core group of strategic data center clients for
which the Bunker provides mission critical services, numerous
midstream oil and gas companies also depend on the facility to
store and manage large volumes of data and support real-time
monitoring and control systems to ensure the safe and efficient
operation of pipelines and storage facilities.
For further information about the facility and its potential for
your data center needs please go to www.datajourney.com
About the Westland Bunker:
The Bunker is a
state-of-the-art Tier III data center and business continuity
campus that provides colocation of critical operations. Its
adjacent 100,000 square-foot, four-story office building serves as
a business continuity and disaster recovery center. The Bunker has
the ability to meet or exceed any requirements for colocation,
business continuity or managed services.
About Data Journey:
Data Journey is an alternative
asset management firm dedicated to investing in mid-scale data
center infrastructure through a value-add/opportunistic investment
strategy.
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SOURCE Data Journey