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The company has two patentxs pending for technology installed inthe center, and it already has customeras at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottling operationm off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiojn services as they look to house serverw and backup data at off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocatiom facility to house servers that need to be connected to multiple bandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businesses that want to ensurwe their Web sites are up andrunning “Everybody is saving everything,” Wangere said.
“You send a picture to your grandmotheerthrough flickr.com, and the image is here and here and I/o’s new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocation centerd as businesses scrap plans for their own private said David Cappuccio, chief of researcb of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “In the last when the economy startedto tank, (companies) starteds to ask if they should be spending all the capitapl money up front,” he said. I/o completed the work on Phoenis One in aboutsix months, employing an army of many of whom are still working on the seconfd phase.
The first phase is finished, but upgradesx will continue until there isroughly 460,000 squarr feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’ve alreadyu completed about half of that. The process for developinvg Phoenix One started witha $56 million investment by Sterlinyg Partners in December which helped i/o acquire the buildinb on a 50-year lease. I/o moved its operationn from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix office. Many of the technologiea first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expandeds in the new operation.
Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a serve enclosure that makes use of cool air circulating unde r theraised floor. It allows the air to be drawn up througbh theclosed cabinet, enablinbg more servers to be storefd within. The device allows the cabinets to store as much as 10 timews the equipment that wouldf be used in traditiona datacenter operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeinyg people pack 5,000 squarew feet of data center into two he said. The company also developerd a plug system that works with equipment fromany manufacturer.
It’s an easier way to distribute powerr and infrastructure than installingspecialized equipment, Wanger “This is all customer-driven,” he “People said they wanted access to multiple brandds of equipment.” The data center will take advantage of featurezs originally installed in the Le Nature’s factory, includinvg access to an on-site Arizona Public Service Co. substatiob suppling the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to triplde that once the facilityis complete. It also uses a 7,000-tob chilled water cooling system thathelpes i/o reduce its power bill through thermal cooling.
The procesxs uses a water-gel combination that is frozen at night to keep the water coolefr duringthe day, Wanger said. In addition, the company is planningy a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’s roof, installec light-emitting diodes for more efficient lighting, and power-savin equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittesd for certification as part ofthe U.S. Greehn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesigb program, Wanger said. Phoenix once was a boomtown fordata centers, but the tech bubblwe crashed many of those plans in the earlyy part of the decade. In recent years, the Valley has again seen increased activitt in becoming adata hub.
Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearas ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturalo disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciall data centers up evenas company-owned data centers are gettingb smaller — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccip said. “The colocators are going to continue tolook there,” he “They are going to go where they can get the lowest cost of a building per square
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