Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley.
Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley
Wanted to follow up on the data center comment if I could, give us a little bit more color on what you’re thinking in terms of timing? How much these data centers are going cost? The sort of square footage, some of the details around that and a pretty very good cash flow and CapEx performance in Q2, we’ve seen it come down to the sort of 6% of revenues. Is that sort of more timing issues, or give us a sense of color, what we might expect for the second half of the year?
Arunas Chesonis
On data center side, one way to think about it is probably two to three centers built out every year. We’ve got two very large centers in Pennsylvania that conserves the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic area. We’d like to for the next 12 months place one in the Midwest, one in the Southwest, actually one in New England. New England is one of our fastest growing marketplaces especially on data side and we’ve got a sales organization that really I know as case so I think you take advantage of it.
So I think once you look at the timeframe of the investment, now you can start thinking about how much it would cost to build out. Again every location is unique, because of the variety of infrastructure we already have in some of these places. If you look in a place like Phoenix, lets say if that tends to be a great place for data center expansion just based on the stability of the environment down there, and we do have a large enterprise based in Southern California as well Arizona.
We’ve 10,000 square feet of extra space that we’re paying for that came to us as the part McLeodUSA merger. We’ve got environmentals, we’ve got power, we’ve generation, we have very little costs associated we’re trying to bill that out. I think you go to a place like Houston or Dallas, we’ve got extra space, very similar situation to Phoenix.
If you look at a place like New England or some places in west of downtown Boston, where we put our second switching center, there is space on that same floor to just blow through some walls and build an extra 3,000 to 10,000 square feet business space. There we just sold out all our collo space there recently in about six months, almost 30 Cabinet and owe just a very small amount, but it goes very quickly.
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