INAP announced the start of the next phase of its Los Angeles-area data center expansion. The new power upgrade begins six months after phase one, which added 12,000 square feet and a 2.5 MW transformer to the facility. When all phases are complete, the project will increase the data center's total power capacity from 1.4 MW to 3.2 MW of critical load. Strategically located approximately 15 minutes from LAX International Airport, the 101,000 square foot data center, located at 3690 Redondo Beach Ave., Redondo Beach, Calif., is among company's most in-demand facilities in North America. The expansion was initiated in June 2019 to accommodate the growth of several key customer environments, as well as broader supply constraints and demand for hybrid infrastructure services in the L.A. data center market. INAP projects the completion of phase two by the end of March. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for enterprise colocation, cloud, and multi-platform, low-latency network connectivity is projected to rise nationwide in 2021, according to company's annual State of IT Infrastructure Management report, published in December. 59% of IT infrastructure managers say their organization is changing where they operate their infrastructure as a result of the pandemic, and of that group, a majority are considering solutions that combine the benefits of colocation, enterprise private cloud, and multi-cloud connectivity for their mixed workload environments.