Construction at Switch’s Las Vegas-North Campus, which will have more than 300,000 sq ft of mission critical data center space once built, commenced last week.

The campus will allow switch customers to work with Active-Active environments, which means redundant data centers are about 15 miles apart to ensure lower latency.

It will sit about 15 miles from Switch’s Las Vegas Digital Exchange Campus (LVDEC), where its Super NAP campus exists.

The Super NAP Campus which is also undergoing an expansion which will see it grow from 407,000 sq ft with 500MVA to more 2.2m sq ft in the next year.

According to Switch, this is the largest independent technology ecosystem in the world.

Switch Executive VP of Colocation Missy Young said the company had seen demand for Active Resilient Colocation, a colocation model based on Active-Active designed by Switch which ensures redundant facilities are close enough to one another to offer low-latency demands.

“Our customers are continuing to evolve and adopt the latest enterprise configurations,” Young said.

“The addition of Switch Las Vegas-North will provide our customers with three separate data center ecosystems that satisfy the latency ranges for Active-Active solutions.”

She said many customers working with Switch require 100% uptime.

Switch will be using its own modular, component-oriented model designed for Switch for the build-out.