AT&T to Expand Data Centers in Boston, Dallas

AT&T (T) will expand its data center network, with plans to add 180,000 square feet of hosting space as part of a broader $1 billion expansion of its network. The additional space will be built out in AT&T's 38 existing data centers around the world, with a focus on four markets: Boston, Dallas, Singapore and Amsterdam. The company's 2008 expansion budget is 33 percent larger than last year's, and is being driven by "explosive surge in data, voice and video traffic."

The expansion, which will give AT&T nearly 2.3 million square feet of data center space, comes just six months after the company announced new data centers in Toronto and Piscataway, New Jersey. In late 2006 AT&T added data centers in Chicago and Shanghai, China.

AT&T's network expansion also includes:

"Companies worldwide are responding to the exploding need to deliver voice, data and video in real time to their end-users, no matter where they are, no matter what the device," said Ron Spears, group president, AT&T Global Business Services. "It is vital that we continue to invest in those geographies and services to meet this demand so our customers can connect their operations, partners and suppliers."