DataBank, a provider of cloud, connectivity, and co-location services, has opened its third data center in Kansas City. The company currently owns and operates 15 data centers across the US in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and Pittsburgh.

Mark Haranas filed this report on the new 44,000 square foot DataBank data center for CRN:

The new facility, dubbed KC3, is a Tier III state-of-the-art data center with redundant power and cooling configurations, diverse network entry points and multiple fiber providers to deliver top-notch network resiliency and uptime. The data center is located on a seven-acre campus with 12 MW of total power, with critical load capability of 4 MW to 6 MW.

“Kansas City is quite literally at the center of the country’s growing national market for data center services and solutions,” said DataBank CEO Raul Martynek in a statement. “The grand opening of KC3 cements our commitment of providing the highest-quality infrastructure solutions and customer support to an area that is home to notable corporate headquarters and leading enterprises.”

The Dallas-based data center provider said the new KC3 data center completes a high-speed optical metro transport ring in a region with growing demands for connectivity. DataBank installed private fiber links that links KC3 to its other two data centers, KC1 and KC2, in the region.

The new data center meets stringent and compliant solutions for mission-critical businesses including HIPAA and PCI-DSS. The site will be staffed 24×7 with on-site security and operations teams. The data center also will offer customers direct access to DataBank’s CloudPlus platform as well as its full suite of managed services, disaster recovery and storage offerings.