Issue 15, April/May
FOCUS NEWS NORTH AMERICA
YAHOO! LAUNCHES $500M DATA CENTER CONSTRUCTION PLAN
Yahoo! is investing more than US$500m in new data center construction on three continents, Yahoo!
Scott Noteboom announced at the DatacenterDynamics conference on 10 March.
VP of operations New
York 2011
The plan is to consolidate its current 31 data centers into 13 new facilities in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific by the end of 2014. All of the company’s infrastructure will be moved to the new facilities in what
COLORADO Logistics giant FedEx held a grand opening for its new data center in Colorado in February. Construction of the facility, adjacent
to the company’s
Rocky Mountain Tech Center in Colorado Springs, began in 2006 and Phase I was completed two years later. Phase II of the 140,000-sq-ft building and migration of core systems and applications
to the new data
center from Memphis, Tennessee, had commenced.
NORTH CAROLINA
Apple confirmed plans to bring its new North Carolina data center online before the end of May 2011 during a February shareholder meeting, AppleInsider reported. The US$1bn facility in Maiden will be the company’s second data center, complementing an existing facility in Newark, California.
NEW YORK
New York City officials have officially launched a new data center in downtown Brooklyn, laying the first cornerstone in the city’s IT consolidation plans. IBM is managing the first phase of the initiative, which involves consolidating and modernizing systems of select initial agencies for the multi-departmental data center operation.
ILLINOIS
DuPont Fabros commenced a public offering of preferred stock on the New York Stock Exchange to fund the Phase II buildout of its data center in the Chicago metropolitan area. The first phase of the data center houses 122,000 sq ft of raised floor and provides 18.2MW of power.
WASHINGTON DC HP hired a retired US Navy vice admiral, who spent decades in one of the branches of the US military, to help with HP’s infrastructure services to the Department of Defense’s war-fighting missions. H Denby Starling II joined HP as VP for command and control at the company’s Infrastructure Services division after more than 30 years in the US Navy.
US President Barack Obama’s 2012 federal budget
proposal, submitted for review by Congress
Noteboom said would likely be the largest migration in the history of the Internet.
He said many of the new data centers will be built to Yahoo!’s next-generation data center design called Flex Tier Data Center. The multi- tier design promises to reduce construction time to five months per phase and lower costs to between US$3m and US$5m per 1MW, while providing higher uptime for critical applications.
GEORGIA Chipmaker AMD is planning to build a new data center in Suwanee, Georgia. The facility will be part of the company’s data center consolidation project, under which multiple data centers scattered
across the US will
potentially be consolidated into the
153,000-sq-ft
art facility, AMD spokeswoman Pushpita Prasad said.
state-of-the UTAH
Construction of the US National Security Agency’s US$1.2bn data center in Utah is currently being annexed to a neighboring city to secure a reliable water supply for the future facility. Officials of the City of Bluffdale approved annexation in March, according to a local news report. Without annexation it will not be considered a priority water customer in case of a shortage.
CALIFORNIA Datapipe joined a shortlist of data center services companies that are members of the US Environmental
Agency’s program that gives companies
recognition
Protection for
buying a substantial amount of renewable energy to power their operations. Datapipe purchased 56m kWh of renewable energy, enough to power its facilities in California and New Jersey.
Vantage officially launched the first of three data centers on the site
of a former Intel campus
Yahoo!’s now famous chicken coop design
in February, included a proposal by the federal CIO Vivek Kundra for an aggressive data center
consolidation plan and
implementation of a cloud-first policy for IT procurement. The US$80bn 2011 IT budget set a target to eliminate 800 federal agency data centers by 2015.
in Santa Clara, California. The building provides 6MW of critical load on the campus, with a total IT power capacity of 37MW. All 40,000 sq ft of raised floor in the building has been leased out.
Google has invested in California- based Transphorm, which has technology that promises to eliminate most conversion- related electrical losses in devices. Data centers are going to be the company’s first target market. Google led the second financing round for the startup, which raised US$20m.
Data center developer/operator Sentinel has taken on a new investment partner in a deal that made up to US$300m in new equity expansion capital available to the company. Sentinel recently completed Phase I of its 330,000 sq ft data center in New Jersey.
TEXAS
Internap announced construction of 55,000 sq ft of raised floor in a new data center in Dallas-Fort Worth, for Phase 1 completion in Q1 2012. The announcement follows a string of new builds and expansions in Seattle, Santa Clara, Houston and Boston.
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