Issue 12, Oct/Nov
FOCUS NEWS NORTH AMERICA
CALIFORNIA
Brocade opened its new headquarters and data center in Silicon Valley in September. The 562,000-sq-ft campus consists of three offi ce buildings and a data center. The vendor’s intention was to design a sustainable campus, which can serve as a showcase for “clean tech” design and operation and latest IT technologies.
San Francisco-based data center developer and provider Digital Realty Trust has entered a joint-venture partnership with Behringer Harvard, a Dallas- based real estate fi rm, to build a turn-key data center for multiple tenants at the Santa Clara Tech Center, a three-building Silicon Valley campus. As part of the agreement DRT bought a 50% equity interest in the Tech Center, previously wholly owned by Behringer Harvard.
OHIO
A facility owned and operated by global fi nancial services company Citibank became the fourth data center to receive an Energy Star label from the US Environmental Protection Agency under the new energy effi ciency
benchmarking
program for data centers. Citi’s data center near Columbus, which measures more than 300,000 sq ft, received a score of 84 on the agency’s 0-100 energy effi ciency scale. This means the facility is more energy effi cient than 84% of facilities the EPA used for benchmarking. A data center qualifi es to receive the Energy Star label if it falls within the top 25% of facilities used to benchmark effi ciency.
OREGON
Barry Schnitt, Facebook’s policy
communications
director, left a lengthy response on a ZDNet chat area in response to criticism about its
GREEN GOLD FOR IBM: IBM’s new data center at its Research Triangle Park campus now has LEED gold certification. IBM expects to save more than US$1m in the first year of operation.
use of coal for its planned data center in Oregon. It was the same week more than 500,000 Facebook users, spurred on by Greenpeace, signed a petition against Facebook’s decision to bypass renewable energy in favour of coal for its planned Oregan data center. Schnitt said Facebook had little choice over the power source offered to it by the state and that its data center should be praised for the high effi ciency he said would come from within the facility.
According to reports, Juniper Networks is looking at Atlanta as the location for a new research and development center, valued at US$100m.
NEW YORK
The fi rst group of stocks has commenced trading out of NYSE Euronext’s new data center in Mahwah, NJ, the stock exchange operator’s spokesman confi rmed. At the time of writing the fi rst 19 companies’ stocks are now being traded out of the data center, which will eventually support the trading of all stocks currently traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE AMEX exchanges.
VIRGINIA
Microsoft has picked a site in Virginia for its next modular data center build. The company said it plans to invest up to US$499m in the project, according to a news release from the offi ce of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. McDonnell said the project in Mecklenburg County will be the “largest economic investment in Southern Virginia history”. The state competed against North Carolina and Texas for the data center build, which is expected to create about 50 new jobs.
Data center development and management company Power Loft sold one of its data center properties to Corporate Offi ce Properties Trust
(COPT).
COPT’s focus is on serving US government clients. It agreed to pay about US$115m for the Washington, DC, facility. The 233,000 sq ft data center includes 100,000 sq ft of raised fl oor and has two long-term leases on 16% of the space combined.
MARYLAND
The agency that administers the US federal social insurance program chose Maryland to locate its new 300,000 sq ft data center, according to local news reports. The Social Security
Administration zeroed in on two potential sites in the state, one in Urbana and one in Woodlawn. The facility will replace the administration’s existing National Computer Center in Baltimore.
The US green data center market is predicted to be worth US$13.81bn by 2015, according to research fi rm EL Insights.
CHICAGO
Data center provider CoreLink moved its headquarters from Phoenix to the Chicago area, where it also launched a new data center. The 80,000sq ft 16MW data center sits on 5.4 acres of land. CoreLink CEO Geoff Hampson said in a statement that the Chicago area was strategically important for the company because of its vibrant business and technology environment. CoreLink has four other data centers, located in Seattle, Las Vegas and Phoenix, Arizona. It is fi nanced by Boston-based M/C Venture Partners
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