[February 26, 2013]

Vantage Data Centers Announces Continued Momentum in Santa Clara

Vantage Data Centers ("Vantage") today announced the successful commissioning of an additional 3MW of Critical Load Power in their first Santa Clara, CA (News - Alert) data center campus. This brings the campus to 23MW of fully built, highly reliable and redundant infrastructure designed to support customer IT requirements across a variety of industries including internet gaming, social media, telecommunications and cloud infrastructure.

The Vantage team also announced a new long-term customer lease for a custom 1MW data module on the campus - with construction already underway and commissioning anticipated in Q2 of 2013.

"We are proud of the efforts of our team as well as our construction partners ensuring that we have capacity to meet both current and future customer needs," said Vantage CEO Jim Trout. "Our growth continues in Santa Clara and we're excited to see that our custom solution model continues to be effective in a very competitive marketplace. As we continue to build new solutions to support our leasing back-log and lease new space, we remain convinced that the industry leadin customers with whom we work continue to value corporate cultural alignment, demonstrated delivery capabilities and customization to support their business objectives."

Vantage's 18-acre Santa Clara campus is designed to scale to support 47MW of critical power demand. With approximately 90,000 square feet of to-be-released data center space on the campus, Vantage is capable of rapidly deploying an additional 15MW in a variety of custom configurations. Coupled with industry leading efficiencies (PUEs documented at 1.12), reliable and cost-competitive power from Silicon Valley Power, Vantage Santa Clara offers customers the ability to deploy their infrastructure in world-class facilities within the Bay Area.

Vantage brings a strong commitment to the environment and its customers. All completed facilities are LEED Platinum certified - and there are plans, upon completion, to certify current construction projects, which will make the campus the largest LEED Platinum campus in North America.

Vantage Santa Clara offers customers the choice of raised floor or slab on grade solutions while supporting densities up to 400w/sqft and PUEs as low as 1.12. Customers are able to deploy their infrastructure in world-class facilities with superior technical and economic characteristics.

"We believe that 2013 is going to be another great year for our customers and Vantage," said Hank "Nofty" Nothaft, Executive Chairman of Vantage. "As someone who has extensive experience on both the provider and end-user side of the data center industry, I believe that our engineering, customer driven approach will continue to enable great solutions, strong growth and returns to our investors that far outpace our public competitors."

About Vantage:

Vantage Data Centers is an award winning data center services company based in Santa Clara, CA with an additional campus in Quincy, WA. Recognized by publications such as Fortune Magazine and Computer Reseller News, Vantage delivers unique value through a combination of engineering driven solutions design and just-in-time construction management.

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