A new data center company called Vantage Data Centers is launching today. It purchased a data center campus from Intel, with backing from a storied Silicon Valley private-equity fund, and said it has plans to expand the facility dramatically.
The company has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Silver Lake, a firm that seems to have been quiet recently, but whose investments include well-known companies like Gartner, Seagate, and Skype.
The former Intel facility is located in Santa Clara. Calif. In addition to the existing data-center operations, Vantage plans to open another facility on the same campus at the end of this year. Vantage says that it will be able to be able to deliver low-cost service by being energy efficient.
I've asked the company for background about the Intel site, specifically why it was up for sale, and will update if I hear back.