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The company has two patents pendintg for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadhy has customers at what once was the Le Nature’sa water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiobn services as they look to house servers and backulp data at off-site facilities to save capital costs. Companiesd can rent rack space in a colocation facility to house serverzs that need to be connected to multiplebandwidtb providers.
This is particularly importanf to businesses that want to ensur e their Web sites are up andrunning “Everybody is saving everything,” Wanger “You send a picture to your grandmother througyh 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 colocatioj centers as businesses scrap plans for their own private centers, said David chief of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “Ibn the last year, when the economh started to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoul be spending all the capital money up he said.
I/o completed the work on Phoenixc One in aboutsix months, employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stilk working on the second phase. The first phas e is finished, but upgrades will continue until there is roughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’vew already completed about half of The process for developing Phoenix One startec with a $56 million investment by Sterling Partners in Decembere which helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-year lease. I/o moved its operatiohn from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data center, to the Phoenixx office.
Many of the technologies first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdalse center are expanded in the new operation. Additions includes the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosure that makexs use of cool air circulating under theraiser floor. It allows the air to be drawn up througj theclosed cabinet, enabling more serversd to be stored within. The device allowd the cabinets to store as much as 10 timeds the equipment that would be used in traditional data center Wanger said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,000 squarde feet of data center intotwo cabinets,” he The company also developed a plug system that workzs with equipment from any manufacturer.
It’s an easiedr way to distribute power and infrastructure than installingfspecialized equipment, Wanger said. “This is all he said. “People said they wanter access to multiple brandszof equipment.” The data center will take advantage of featuresw originally installed in the Le Nature’zs factory, including access to an on-siter Arizona Public Service Co. substation supplint the facility with 42 megavoltwof electricity. The compan plans to triple that once the facility is It also usesa 7,000-ton chillesd water cooling system that helps i/o reducw its power bill through thermal cooling.
The process uses a water-gelp combination that is frozen at night to keep the wated cooler duringthe day, Wanger In addition, the company is plannin g a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’x roof, installed light-emitting diodes for more efficient and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittee for certification as part ofthe U.S. Greeb Building Council’s Leadership in Energuy and EnvironmentalDesign program, Wanger said. Phoenixz once was a boomtown for data but the tech bubblse crashed many of those planx in the early part ofthe decade. In recent the Valley has again seen increased activity in becoming adata hub.
Cappuccioi said Phoenix has the same things goiny for it that it did 10years ago: a relatively stablee cost of electricity and no natural disasters. As colocatiomn continues to push the size of commerciak data centersup — even as company-owned data centerss are getting smaller — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue to look he said. “They are going to go where they can get the lowesrt cost of a building persquare foot.
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