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The company has two patents pending for technologyu installed inthe center, and it alread y has customers at what once was the Le Nature’es water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocation services as they look to houswe servers and backup data at off-sits facilities to save capital costs. Companies can rent rack spaced in a colocation facility to houswe servers that need to be connecter to multiplebandwidth providers. This is particularly importan to businesses that want to ensure theirt Web sites are up andrunning 24/7. “Everybody is saving everything,” Wanger said.
“Yoy send a picture to your grandmothetrthrough flickr.com, and the image is here and here and here.” I/o’z new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatio n centers as businesses scrap plans for their own privatw centers, said David Cappuccio, chie f of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “In the last when the economy startesdto tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoulxd be spending all the capital moneu up front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenix One in abou t six months, employing an army of many of whom are still workintg on the second phase.
The firstf phase is finished, but upgrades will continue until ther e isroughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to servers. Wanger said they’re abouft they’ve already completed about half of The process for developing Phoenix One started witha $56 millioj investment by Sterling Partners in December which helpec i/o acquire the building on a 50-year lease. I/o movef its operation from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-footy data center, to the Phoenis office.
Many of the technologies firs implementedat i/o’s Scottsdalew center are expanded in the new Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a servee enclosure that makes use of cool air circulatinfg under the raised floor. It allowse the air to be drawn up through theclose cabinet, enabling more servers to be stored within. The devicew allows the cabinets to store as much as 10 timesz the equipment that would be used in traditional datacenter operations, Wanger said. “We’rr seeing people pack 5,000 square feet of data center into two he said.
The company also developed a plug systemm that works with equipment fromany It’s an easier way to distributew power and infrastructure than installint specialized equipment, Wanger “This is all customer-driven,” he said. “Peoplw said they wanted access to multiplre brandsof equipment.” The data center will take advantage of features originally installed in the Le Nature’d factory, including access to an on-sits Arizona Public Service Co. substatioj suppling the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to tripld that once the facilityis complete.
It also uses a 7,000-to chilled water cooling system thathelps i/o reduce its powetr bill through thermal cooling. The process uses a water-gel combinatiojn that is frozen at night to keep the watefr cooler duringthe day, Wanger said. In the company is planning a 4-megawatt solar systekm for the building’s roof, installed light-emitting diodes for more efficient lighting, and power-saving equipmenrt and design. The retrofit also will be submittedx for certification as part ofthe U.S. Green Buildingt Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Wanger said.
Phoenix once was a boomtown for data but the tech bubbl e crashed many of those plans in the earlty part ofthe decade. In recenyt years, the Valley has againj seen increased activity in becoming adata hub. Cappucciok said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearz ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturapl disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commercial data centersup — even as company-owned data centers are gettinvg smaller — more companies may look at Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue to look he said. “They are going to go wherwe they can get the lowest cost of a buildinb persquare foot.
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