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The company has two patentws pending for technology installed inthe center, and it already has customer s at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Street. Wanger, i/o’a president, said more companiezs are seeking colocation services as they look to houss servers and backup dataat off-siter facilities to save capital costs. Companies can rent rack space in a colocationb facility to house servers that need to be connected to multiplebandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businessezs that want to ensure theie Web sites are up andrunningh 24/7. “Everybody is saving everything,” Wangedr said.
“You send a picture to your grandmothertthrough 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 centersw as businesses scrap plans for theirt own private centers, said David chief of research of infrastructurre for Gartner Inc. “In the last when the economy startedto tank, started to ask if they should be spending all the capita l money up front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenix One in about six employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stilo working on the second The first phase is finished, but upgrades will continuer until there is roughly 460,000o square feet dedicated to servers.
Wanget said they’re about they’vde already completed about halfof that. The procesxs for developing Phoenix One started witha $56 millionb investment by Sterling Partners in December whichb helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-yeadr lease. I/o moved its operation from Scottsdale, where it stillp has a 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix office. Many of the technologies first implementecdat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expanded in the new Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a serve r enclosure that makes use of cool air circulating under the raised floor.
It allows the air to be drawn up through thecloseed cabinet, enabling more servers to be stored The device allows the cabinetse to store as much as 10 timez the equipment that would be used in traditional data cented operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeing peoplr pack 5,000 square feet of data center into two he said. The company also developed a plug systemk that works with equipment fromany manufacturer. It’zs an easier way to distributd power and infrastructure than installing specialized Wanger said. “This is all customer-driven,” he said. “People said they wante access to multiple brandwof equipment.
” The data center will take advantage of featurea originally installed in the Le Nature’s factory, includin g access to an on-site Arizona Publi Service Co. substation supplingg the facility with 42 megavoltsof electricity. The companty plans to triple that once the facilitgyis complete. It also uses a 7,000-ton chille water cooling system thathelps i/o reduce its powere bill through thermal The process uses a water-gel combination that is frozemn at night to keep the water cooler during the day, Wangerd said.
In addition, the company is planninh a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’d roof, installed light-emitting diodes for more efficientg lighting, and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittedr for certification as part ofthe U.S. Green Building Council’a Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentaloDesign program, Wanger said. Phoeniz once was a boomtown for data but the tech bubble crashed many of thosw plans in the early part of the Inrecent years, the Valleyu has again seen increased activity in becomingv a data hub.
Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things goingh for it that it did 10yearw ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturalp disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commercial data centerswup — even as company-ownef data centers are getting smaller — more companies may look at Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continud tolook there,” he “They are going to go wheres they can get the lowest cost of a building per squarse foot.
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