1&1 Internet, Inc., (1&1) a United Internet subsidiary web-hosting company, announced it will open a new, fully-automated data center in Lenexa, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City. 1&1 is a leader of web-hosting products in Europe, and started to serve U.S. customers in late 2003.
The company has selected a 55,000 square foot facility at College Crossing Business Park near College Boulevard and Strang Line Road. The facility will supply space for 40,000 servers and will accommodate the company’s fast growing U.S. Web hosting client base. The data center is scheduled to open early 2007 and will employ 15 people. 1&1 specializes in Web sites and domains for SMEs and consumers.
Currently, 1&1’s Web site customers are being hosted in two rented data centers in New York and New Jersey. The new facility in Kansas City will handle all new customers from within the United States and Canada.
“Opening another location besides our headquarters in the Philadelphia area underscores the importance of our U.S. business,” said Andreas Gauger, chairman, 1&1 Internet. “1&1 will invest up to $9 million in the Lenexa site this year and several millions more in 2007.”
The Lenexa facility was selected from 10 sites and marks the first major investment 1&1 has made in Kansas.
“1&1 has found an excellent business climate in Kansas, and we have been enthusiastically welcomed to the Kansas City area,” continued Gauger. “We are looking forward to opening this facility and becoming part of the business community.”
1&1 Internet Inc., established in 1992, is a subsidiary of United Internet, a public company with 6,000 employees and a market cap of $3 billion. The company hosts more than 6 million domain names, while 30,000 servers run on the company’s four state-of-the-art data centers. Its U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, Pa.
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