Issue 13, Dec 10/Jan 11
FOCUS NEWS NORTH AMERICA
QTS’ MEGA SITE IN VIRGINIA COMES ONLINE
Data center provider QTS launched the first phase of its 1.3m sq ft data center campus in Richmond, Virginia. The company acquired the 210-acre property in April for only US$12m through a bankruptcy court auction. Its former owner is Qimonda.
The first phase provides a total of 50,000 sq ft of data center space and up to 18MW of power, according to a QTS news release. Suites at the complex are customizable – from 1,000 sq ft to 50,000 sq ft. Additionally,
VIRGINIA
Wholesale data center provider DuPont Fabros completed the second phase of its ACC5 data center development in Virginia and the first phase of its new data center in New Jersey. The company launched both phases on 1 November, bringing online 36.4MW of data center capacity and expanding its portfolio by 30%.
OKLAHOMA Google said in October that it will complete construction of a US$600m data center that was originally announced in 2007. The site is located in Oklahoma and the company’s director of hardware operations, Paul Froutan, said that over the next year Google would make the facility operational. Though construction had started, the project was mothballed one year later.
US US telecommunications company Windstream is expanding its data center business through the acquisition of Hosted Solutions, which will add five US facilities to its data center portfolio, bringing the portfolio’s total size to 12. Windstream has entered into an agreement to buy Hosted Solutions from its current owner, Abry Partners, for US$310m in cash.
the company offers retail-size colocation space and managed services in Richmond.
The first customer is a government agency, which has taken 6,000 sq ft of space and 1MW of power at the facility. QTS has launched a new government services division in its Washington, DC offices and at the Richmond complex. The QTS Government Services unit will develop service packages tailored for government agencies and private organizations that work in the public sector.
A report by the US Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General pointed out several shortcomings in the department’s ongoing data center consolidation project. The shortcomings included a lack of complete inventory of existing data centers, as well as of existing hardware and software.
The total number of US government
data to be QTS Richmond exterior
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than 100,000 sq ft and will be used to provide colocation, managed hosting and cloud- based services.
MISSOURI Schneider
Electric officially centers
revealed by the latest inventory (2,094) turned out
nearly twice
the number the Office of Management and Budget reported in 2009.
The Department of Defense turned out to be the agency with the biggest number of data centers – 772. The inventory was part of the ongoing government-wide data center consolidation initiative.
MONTREAL Canadian telecommunications and data center service provider Bell has bought a data center in Montreal, where Bell is headquartered, along with the hosting division of Quebec’s Hypertec Availability Services. The data center’s size is more
opened the doors of its new state- of-the-art technology center in St Louis, Missouri. The 100,000 sq ft facility, operated with the help of many of the company’s own products, includes a data center that supports Schneider’s own operations, product demonstration rooms, training facilities and test chambers for R&D and customer solution testing.
NEW YORK Telx added 40,000 sq ft of data center space at its data center located in the large New York Carrier Hotel, at 111 8th Ave. This is the second expansion the company has undertaken at the site, which caters mostly to New York metro financial markets.
Verizon submitted an application with detailed plans for a US$4.5bn data center site in Somerset, New York, according to local news reports. The company plans to spend the money over the next 10 years if Somerset does end up being the final building site. In late October, Verizon was also granted 25MW of low-cost
hydroelectric power for the site. UTAH
Colocation provider C7 Data Centers opened a data center in Salt Lake City, Utah, amid speculation that social networking company Twitter will be one of its customers. Out of the 65,000 sq ft data center space, 15,000 sq ft has been sold or reserved to an anchor tenant, according to C7.
NORTH CAROLINA A North Carolina couple that owned a property next to the construction site of Apple’s data center in Maiden has sold the lot to Apple for US$1.7m. Donnie and Kathy Fulbright paid US$6,000 for the single-story house on less than one acre of land 34 years ago, according to a Bloomberg report.
Facebook said it will build and operate its own data center in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It is planning to invest about US$450m in the project – the second publicly announced data center for the social networking company.
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