On October 1, 2007, IT infrastructure solutions provider Terremark Worldwide (terremark.com) announced that it has started construction on a $250 million data center project in Culpeper Country, Virginia, which is expected to put Culpeper County on the map as a safe spot to store data. Terremark said the first facility will contain 50,000 square feet and it plans on building four more, each at 100,000 square feet, for a total of 450,000 square feet of data center space in Culpeper.

Terremark's managing director for the Virginia data center, Norm Laudermilch, said that the company wants to satisfy the security and geographical requirements that federal agencies and government contractors enforce on data centers. The company is also aiming to provide better protected and higher-quality commercial space through this investment, said Laudermilch.