CyrusOne acquired this 45-acre plot of land in Quincy in 2016, but has yet to build anything on it, waiting until it closes a tenant for the site before Cyrus invests in construction.
The 45-acre campus can expand to a total of 930,000 square feet with 720,000 colocation square feet with up to 120,000 square feet for class A office space.
Cyxtera's CW1 site in Moses Lake, Washington was acquired via a $2.8 billion transaction to acquire 57 datacenters from CenturyLink. Cyxtera CW1 is a tenant of Server Farm Realty.
H5's 63-acre data center campus was a former Intuit facility.
Microsoft was one of the first companies to build a data center in Quincy. In 2006 Microsoft constructed the first phase (470,000 square feet) of the ‘Columbia Data Center’ in Quincy, Washington
Qunicy is a small town in rural Washington state (population 6,800), but has a big impact on the Internet infrastructure. What Quincy has is abundant and excess power from hydro electric sources.
At first it was the ‘mega content’ companies that deployed to Quincy. Yahoo, Microsoft were early to the area. Now there are plenty of wholesale and retail colocation options.
The main benefit of having a data center located in Quincy, Washington State is the abundant renewable power (at least 2,000 MW) from Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams operated by the Grant County PUD. Commercial power costs are around 2.5 cents /kWh, which is significantly lower than the rest of the nation which are approximately 10 cents /kWh nationally.
| Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Quincy MWH | 800,000 | 100.00 | ||
| Yahoo-Oath Quincy | 331,000 | 77.00 | ||
| Sabey Intergate.Quincy | 408,000 | 50.00 | ||
| Sabey Intergate.Columbia | 438,000 | 30.00 | ||
| Server Farm Realty Titan (Moses Lake) | 136,000 | 24.00 | ||
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| Company | Region Name | Site Name | Building SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MWs) | Estimated Launch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yahoo Japan | Quincy | Yahoo Japan East Wenatchee | 100104 | 16.0 | ||
| Microsoft | Quincy | Microsoft East Wenatchee | 244000 | Dec 01 2022 | ||
| Total | 244000 | 100104 | 16.0 |
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