JarvisLabs plans data center in Houston

LONGMONT – Business technology incubator company JarvisLabs LLC has signed a letter of intent to create a 25,000-square-foot cloud-computing data center at a Lone Star College campus in Houston, Texas.

Longmont-based JarvisLabs plans to open a corporate office, cyber threat research labs and an operations center at the Hewlett-Packard North Campus, site of the former Compaq Computer Corp. headquarters, said owner Jason Jarvis. Lone Star College bought the eight buildings in a Houston business park in 2009.

JarvisLabs also plans to expand in its current location near Airport Road in Longmont, Jarvis said.

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Details of the planned public/private partnership between JarvisLabs and the college were not disclosed. Cloud computing – where large amounts of computer information is stored on servers elsewhere rather than on home computers – is expected to be a $35 billion business worldwide in the next five years, Jarvis said.

“There’s a great power infrastructure (in Houston),” Jarvis said. “The collaboration and the potential for that is huge.”

Jarvis plans to start the build-out of the data center in Houston in January.