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The company has two patentz pending for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadt has customers at what once was the Le Nature’e water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiohn services as they look to house serverse and backup data at off-site facilitied to save capital costs. Companies can rent rack space in a colocation facility to house servers that need to be connected to multiplerbandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businessez that want to ensure theitr Web sites are up andrunning 24/7. “Everybodyg is saving everything,” Wanger said.
“Yoyu send a picture to your grandmotherthrougg flickr.com, and the imagd 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 colocatioj centers as businesses scrap plans for their own private centers, said David chief of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “Ib the last year, when the economy started to (companies) started to ask if they should be spending all the capitalk moneyup front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenix One in about six employing an army of many of whom are still workint on the second phase.
The first phas e is finished, but upgrades will continue until ther isroughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to servers. Wanger said they’re abour they’ve already completed about halfof that. The processz for developing Phoenix One started witha $56 milliob investment by Sterling Partners in December which helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-yeaf lease. I/o moved its operation from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data center, to the Phoenicx office.
Many of the technologiexs first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdals center are expanded in the new Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosurre that makes use of cool air circulatingt under the raised floor. It allowx the air to be drawn up througnh theclosed cabinet, enablinb more servers to be stored The device allows the cabinets to store as much as 10 timesd the equipment that would be used in traditional data center operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeingh people pack 5,000 square feet of data centefr intotwo cabinets,” he said.
The company also developef a plug system that works with equipment fromany It’s an easier way to distribute powerd and infrastructure than installing specialized equipment, Wanger said. “Thisd is all customer-driven,” he “People said they wanted access to multiplse brandsof equipment.” The data center will take advantagee of features originally installed in the Le Nature’ss factory, including access to an on-site Arizonaq Public Service Co. substation supplin the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to tripls that once the facilityis complete.
It also uses a 7,000-ton chilled water cooling system thathelps i/o reducre its power bill through thermal The process uses a water-gel combination that is frozebn at night to keep the water cooler durin g the day, Wanger said. In addition, the company is planning a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’d roof, installed light-emitting diodew for more efficient lighting, and power-saving equipment and The retrofit also will be submittef for certification as part ofthe U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Wanger said.
Phoenix once was a boomtowh fordata centers, but the tech bubbld crashed many of those plans in the early part of the In recent years, the Valley has again seen increasecd activity in becoming a data hub. Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearas ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturalp disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciap data centersup — even as company-owned data centere are getting smaller — more companies may look at Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue to look he said. “They are going to go where they can get the lowesgt cost of a building persquare foot.
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