Amazon Inc. and its fellow infrastructure-as-a-service giants aren’t the only ones benefiting from the growing demand for off-premise resources in the enterprise. The trend is also creating more business for co-location providers like Equinix Inc., which is looking to grow its share of the pie with a newly announced expansion effort that will see four data centers added its global network by the end of the year.

One of the first stops on the roadmap is Dallas, the main economic hub of prosperous North Texas. The region boasts nearly two dozen Fortune 500 companies along with a host of other major organizations that likely all utilize cloud services to one degree or another, at least if the rest of the market is anything to go by. It’s also home to several key Internet exchange points that handle much of the traffic between the U.S. and South America, which features prominently in Equinix’s expansion plan.

The company intends to launch a massive new facility in São Paulo with as much floor space as all of its existing Brazilian campuses combined to support the growing technology demands of the nation’s private sector. The data center will be able to accommodate not only everyday enterprises but also cloud providers thanks to the availability of high-speed connectivity options courtesy of Equinix’s networking arm. Apparently, the division was also heavily involved in the planning of the two other campuses that are scheduled to come online as part of its expansion.

The first facility is being built a stone throw away from Sydney’s business district and the adjacent undersea communications cable to minimize latency for local customers. A similar motivation lies behind the choice of locations for the fourth and final data center that the company announced today, which targets Tokyo’s financial district. Equinix says that the expansion will add some 200,000 square feet of floor space once construction is complete, or enough for about 4,000 server cabinets.

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