Map of Georgia's Data Centers
Posted in Atlanta
Map produced by TAG, the Technology Association of Georgia.
Ashburn Data Center Cluster Map
Posted in Northern Virginia
Map of data centers immediately surrounding the Equinix campus and Beaumeade Circle.
Subsea Cables Landing in Virginia Beach
Posted in Virginia Beach
MAREA and BRUSA cables are now landing in Virginia Beach. The Virginia Beach landing port provides an alternative to NY and Flordia landing stations.
Source: Virginia Beach Economic DEvelopment Board
Large Content Company Data Centers in Rural Oregon
Posted in Oregon
Source: Dan Aguayo - The Oregonian
Cologix Land Acquisition in Ashburn
Posted in Cologix Ashburn ASH1
The lot currently has a 211,125-square-foot, two-story church, child care center, and
private school building.
Source: Board of Supervisors
Original Artwork
Posted in Facebook Altoona Iowa
This is an original piece commissioned for the Altoona Data Center by @Micah Crandall-Bear and Shaun Burner.
Source: Facebook
Altoona Artwork
Posted in Facebook Altoona Iowa
The license plate wall at the Altoona Data Center was created with plates and pieces from West End Architectural Salvage & Coffee Shop in Des Moines
Source: Facebook
Apple's 50 MW Solar Farm in Florence AZ
Posted in Apple Mesa
Apple built a 50MW solar power plant on 300 acres in Florence, Ariz., which is used to power its Mesa data center.
The Building uses Aesthetically Pleasing Cylinders on the Roof
Posted in 11830 Webb Chapel - Digital Realty
DRT's Webb Chapel data center utilizes Aesthetically pleasing cylinders on the roof to hide mechanical infrastructure
Aerial View of the Old State Line Generating Plant
Posted in Indiana NAP
The Old State Line Generating Plant in Hammond, Indiana before it was demolished to make way for the new data center development
Refurbishing Facility in 2012
Posted in Involta Duluth 421 N 6th
A crew insulates and sides the old Daugherty Hardware store on Sixth Avenue East in Duluth. The building now is known as the Sixth Avenue Building and will house offices for Essentia Health System
Source: Duluth News
Building in Downtown
Posted in Pittock Internet Exchange
Pittock Block is in Portland downtown. The image shows the building's distance to the Pearl District and Oldtown areas.
The Prime Campus Will be Built in Three Phases
Posted in Prime Sacramento
Phase I is 15 MWs
Phase 2 will be 30 MWs
Phase 3 will be up to 45 MWs
Source: Prime Data Centers
Exterior of 1201 Comstock
Posted in 1201 Comstock - Digital Realty
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley near Highway 101, this data center is strategically placed on major fiber routes and near three cost-effective sub-stations of the power grids of Silicon Valley Power
Source: DRT
OKC Employee Topping Out Ceremony in June 2015
Posted in TierPoint Oklahoma City
OKC data center celebration as employees & workers held a topping out ceremony. Each signed a pillar.
Source: TierPoint Twitter
Containers on the Roof of "Project Mercury" in Phoenix
Posted in eBay Arizona
eBay has deployed 4,920 servers in these containerized data centers on the roof of its new data center in Phoenix.
Source: eBay
Apple Rendering of 4th and 5th Data Centers in Prineville
Posted in Apple Prineville
We will be developing a campus next to our existing facility that will be home to two new buildings. This new construction will bring our total Prineville footprint to more than 3.2 million square feet and will represent an additional investment of $750 million.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/prineville-data-center/growing-our-presence-in-prineville/10155786565698133/
Stack Plan for Equinix Facilities in 350 E Cermak
Posted in Equinix Chicago CH1, CH2, & CH4
This stacking plan shows the layout of CH1, CH2, and CH4 in the building. The Telx (now Digital Realty) Meet-Me-Room on the 2nd floor. Financial Exchanges such as BATS, CME, and ICE are also noted.
Source: Equinix
PAIX - First Elementary School Sign
Posted in Equinix Palo Alto SV8
Sign describing that the SV8 location was also the first school in Palo Alto. Established in 1893.
Source: Wikimapia
Rebate for Energy Efficiency
Posted in Equinix El Segundo LA3
Equinix received a $1 million rebate from Southern California Edison (SCE) for upgrades to the LA3 facility that boosted energy efficiency. The rebate is part of SCE’s program offered to businesses to offset capital investments that result in saving energy.
Pictured (left to right): Dave Robbins, Carl Fung, Mario Lopez, Bill Maloney, Duane Mackenzie, Johnny Lopez, Lisa Cagnolatti, Mary Finn, Raouf Abdel, Michael Seikes, Bill Sewell, Tod Sword.
Source: Equinix
Layout Diagram of VA1 Building
Posted in RagingWire Ashburn VA1/VA2
150,000 square foot VA1 data center is an EPA's ENERGY STAR certified facility with 14.4 megawatts of high density critical IT power.
Source: RagingWire
Location of New CONE Data Center in Allen
Posted in CyrusOne Allen
The data center is sandwiched between Tierpoint and Cisco Systems data centers
Allen data center ground breaking in October 2017
Posted in CyrusOne Allen
From Left to Right: Laramie Dorris, VP Design & Construction, Kellie Teal-Guess, CPO (Chief People Officer), Gary Caplinger, Allen Mayor Pro Tem Baine Brooks, Allen City Council Member John Hatem, EVP, Operations, Design & Construction, Allen Mayor Stephen Terrell, Robert Jackson, General Counsel, Peter Vargas, City Manager Dan Bowman, Executive Director/CEO, AEDC Danny Cowser, Director, Construction & Design
Officials throw a ceremonial shovel of dirt during a Google Nevada data center investment announcement in Henderson on Monday, July 1, 2019, in Las Vegas
Posted in Google Henderson NV
Andrew Silvestri, Google head of data center public policy & community development; Gov. Steve Sisolak; U.S. Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada; U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada; Jacqueline Fuller, vice president of Google and president of Google.org.; and city of Henderson Mayor Pro tem Dan Shaw
Source: L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Andrew Silvestri at the Google launch in July 2019
Posted in Google Henderson NV
Andrew Silvestri, Google head of data center public policy & community development, at the construction site during a Google Nevada data center investment announcement in Henderson on Monday, July 1, 2019, in Las Vegas.
Source: L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal
165 Halsey Stacking Plan
Posted in 165 Halsey
The stacking plan diagram shows the building's tenants and high level layout with in the building
Hot and Cold Rows
Posted in Hurricane Electric Fremont 2
The Fremont 2 Colocation Facility is arranged with “warm and cold” rows. The front of each cabinet faces a cold row, drawing air from the front and venting through the rear to the warm row.
Source: he.net
Facebook is expanding the Fort Worth campus
Posted in Facebook Fort Worth
Phase I on the Alliance Texas development is pictured
Source: Dallasnews.com
Fiber Loop from 3000 to Downtown
Posted in 3000 Skyline Dallas
3000 Skyline is well situated to take advantage of the East Dallas Fiber Loop, which provides redundant connectivity to Dallas’ major carrier hotels, including 1950 Stemmons, 2323 Bryan, 400 South Akard, and 4100 Bryan.
Site Layout for STACK Portland
Posted in STACK Portland
The site was previously built and operated by Infomart before rebranding to STACK in January 2019.
Source: Stack Infra
6th Floor Computer Room
Posted in Sabey Intergate.Manhattan
This squeaky clean space on the 6th floor has everything but the computers. Note the absence of raised floors. In this facility, servers will be placed on concrete slabs. Air supply travels through the walls from the computer room air handler units that can be adjusted as necessary.
Source: InformationWeek
5th Floor UBS Room
Posted in Sabey Intergate.Manhattan
The 5th floor houses the data center's uninterruptable power supply systems and backup batteries. The UPS room itself is redundant, too. There are four of these UPS rooms.
Source: InformationWeek
Chiller Plant on the 4th Floor
Posted in Sabey Intergate.Manhattan
The chiller plant on the 4th floor of the data center is comprised of condenser water pumps and risers that are responsible for maintaining the appropriate temperature in the data center. The ceilings in this area are 23 feet high. As the temperature cools down outside the building, the chillers can be dialed back.
Source: InformationWeek
Ribbon Cutting during SuperNap 9 Launch
Posted in Switch Las Vegas 9
Left to right: Senator Michael Roberson, Commissioner Steve Sisolak, Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy, UNLV’s Metal Rebel Robot, Governor Brian Sandoval, Senator Aaron Ford and Dr. Paul Oh celebrate the ribbon-cutting of SuperNAP Las Vegas 9
Source: Switch
Exterior View
Posted in DC BLOX Huntsville
The 12,690 sq ft greenfield DC BLOX Huntsville data center is capable of delivering up to 20 MW of power
Source: Brasfield & Gorrie
Carrollton Amenities
Posted in CyrusOne Carrollton
The building features 30,000 square feet of customer office space, a modern cafeteria, a gym area with workout machines, and unique recreation space featuring a climbing wall, circular slide and a putting green.
Exterior of NTT Data's Facility in Quincy
Posted in NTT Data Quincy
The facility was acquired in 2019 by GI Partners in a sale-leaseback transaction
Flooring Structure Exposed During Renovation
Posted in QTS Irving
The semiconductor manufacturing facility 'bones' provides an excellent weight-bearing structure for the data center
The Barker Brothers Furniture Store Building
Posted in 818 West 7th
The building was previously to be the Barker Brothers Furniture Store building. Picture was taken circa 1926
Annual Groundhog Run in the cave
Posted in Cavern Technologies
SubTopolis hosts an annual Groundhog Run for the last 35+ years. The event, 5K and 10K runs hare typically hosted in January
Source: SubTropolis
Lobby of VA3
Posted in RagingWire Ashburn VA3
RagingWire has spent money to money to build in data center amenities and good aesthetics. The lobby of VA3 is no exception.
Source: RagingWire
Planned Ashburn Campus Building Layout
Posted in RagingWire Ashburn VA3
The 78-acre fenced campus can support up to 7 buildings with a total critical power load of 108 MW.
Source: RagingWire
Ashburn Campus Building Overview
Posted in RagingWire Ashburn VA3
RagingWire plans 7 buildings on the campus. VA3, VA4, VA5, VA6, VA7, VA8, and VA9.
Source: RagingWire
Fiber Connect between AT1 and AT2
Posted in Equinix Atlanta AT1
Equinix offers the Fiber Connect product between EQIX AT1 (at 180 Peachtree) and EQIX AT2/3 (at 56 Marietta)
Source: EQIX
180 Peachtree Was Formerly a Department Store
Posted in Equinix Atlanta AT1
Before it was a data center, the building held a major department store. The store was called Davison's before rebranding as Macy's. The store closed its doors in 2003.
Floor Plan
Posted in 1547 AlohaNAP
Data Center Layout of showing the colocation rooms, Meet Me Room, Mechanical, and Switch Gear.
QTS Princeton Solar Array is a 14.1 Megawatt Photovoltaic System
Posted in QTS Princeton
The QTS Princeton Solar Array is a 14.1 Megawatt Photovoltaic System, one of the largest, privately owned, net metered photovoltaic systems in the Western Hemisphere. The Solar Array occupies approximately 50 acres of a 194 acre campus. The PV system contains over 57,000 solar modules, 24 power inverters and was constructed on a portion of the campus that was previously used for an agricultural purpose. The project site is surrounded on two sides by existing residential neighborhoods which resulted in the need to address both the visual and the physical impact of the extensive renewable energy facility on the adjacent community.
DRT Chandler
Posted in 2121 S Price - Digital Realty
Digital Realty’s data center in Chandler, Arizona, is at the southern edge of Phoenix’s sprawl, near a massive Intel plant, and companies like Orbital ATK and Iridium. It is one of the largest in Arizona.
Source: Center for Land Use Interpretation
Energy Labs HVAC Cooling System
Posted in CyrusOne Chandler Phoenix Campus
Energy Labs Hybrid Systems utilize a perimeter base frame constructed of Structural Steel to insure minimum deflection
Source: CyrusOne
240,000 Gallon Water Tanks
Posted in Google Berkeley County South Carolina
The water storage tanks hold up to 240,000 gallons (900,000 liters) of water at any given time. The insulated tanks holds water to be used for cooling the data center.
Source: Google
Rendering of Yahoo Japan's Facility Under Construction
Posted in Yahoo Japan East Wenatchee
Yahoo Japan’s data center will be built using Open Compute Project designs for the sake of increasing efficiency. By processing data in the United States, the company claims to have reduced its electricity costs to a sixth of what it would have paid if it remained confined to Japan.
Source: Yahoo Japan
Two of NYC's Telecom Hotels are in Close Proximity
Posted in 60 Hudson Street
The Western Union Building on Hudson Street is approximately 4 blocks from the AT&T Long Lines Building on 6th Street
2016 Crane Collapsed in High Winds
Posted in 60 Hudson Street
A construction crane collapsed in Lower Manhattan Feb 5th 2016, crushing a row of parked cars and killing one man and injuring several others.
Source: ABC News
HITEC Flywheel
Posted in COPT DC-6
The inertia flywheel provides conditioned uninterrupted power to data center equipment
Rendering of TierPoint's Tulsa Site
Posted in TierPoint Tulsa
The data center constructed by Compass and launched in March 2018
Source: TierPoint
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in June 2018
Posted in TierPoint Baltimore BWI
TierPoint CEO Jerry Kent, Maryland Lt. Governor Rutherford and other local officials celebrate the grand opening of our newest Maryland facility with a ceremonial ribbon cutting!
Source: TierPoint Twitter
Moving In: Facebook Opens the Los Lunas in February 2019
Posted in Facebook Los Lunas
A logistics specialist uses a tug to move a server rack in one of the data halls at the newly opened Facebook data center in Los Lunas
Source: Jim Thompson-Albuquerque Journal
Diagnostic Station
Posted in Facebook Forest City
With portable stations, diagnostic functions easily can be performed throughout the data center.
Source: Facebook
Officials at the UT DC Announcement
Posted in Facebook Eagle Mountain Utah
Government officials and representatives of Facebook pose with shovels following the announcement that Facebook will build a data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. May 2018.
Source: Eagle Mountain
Four Circular Murals are on the Side of Google's Mayes County Data Center
Posted in Google Mayes County Oklahoma
Jenny Odell, a Bay Area digital artist, was commissioned to jazz up the structure in Mayes County, Oklahoma as part of Google's Data Center Mural Project.
Odell created four circular collages using Using imagery collected from Google Maps. Each of the circles focus on different types of infrastructure found in the modern world. For example, swimming pools, circular farms, waste and salt ponds, and wastewater treatment plants.
NY2 Double-Stacked Generators
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2
The double-stacked Caterpillar generators tower above the equipment yard. The 2.5 megawatt units are raised 8 feet above the yard to ensure clearance far above the 500-year flood stage. They are fed by an 8,500 gallon underground fuel storage tank
Source: CoreSite
Modular Chiller Plant Generators
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2
The cooling plant features evaporative condensing units and can useair- and water-side economization with variable speed CRAHs. CoreSite is able to use economization for about two-thirds of the year at NY2.
Source: CoreSite
Cooling Infrastructure on the Roof of the V2 facility
Posted in Vantage Santa Clara SC1
Cooling infrastructure on the roof of the Vantage Data Centers V2 facility in Santa Clara
Source: Vantage Data Centers
Playing Shuffleboard in the Data Center
Posted in Vantage Santa Clara SC1
Attendees play shuffleboard during the grand opening party for the V6 building on the Vantage Santa Clara Campus
Source: Vantage
Black Iron Forest
Posted in Switch Las Vegas 8
The “Black Iron Forest” is a framework of extra-thick steel that supports Switch’s containment systems, but also serves as a thermal storage system, retaining temperature to help keep the room cool in the event of a power outage.
Satellite View showing the Eddy Lane data center.
Posted in Tierpoint Nashville NSH
Note the electrical infrastructure just North of the facility
Source: Google Maps
STACK Ashburn Site Layout
Posted in STACK Northern Virginia
The site was previously built and operated by Infomart before rebranding to STACK in January 2019.
Source: Stack Infra
Tim Cook Participates in the January 2018 Groundbreaking
Posted in Apple Reno
Groundbreaking for Apple's data center expansion in Reno.
Apple Solar Farm for Maiden Data Center
Posted in Apple Maiden North Carolina
Apple built a three of 100-acre solar arrays adjacent to the company's Maiden NC data center. Each solar field will produce 20-megawatts.
Apple Iowa Data Center Aerial View
Posted in Apple Waukee IA
In August 2017, Apple announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data center in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the App Store, and other Apple services. Like all Apple data centers, the new facility will run entirely on renewable energy from day one.
Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apples-next-us-data-center-will-be-built-in-iowa/
Apple Waukee Iowa-Front of the Building
Posted in Apple Waukee IA
Facility Outside Des Moines Will Run on 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apples-next-us-data-center-will-be-built-in-iowa/
First Ashburn Facility Under Construction
Posted in Vantage Ashburn
Photo taken in September 2018
Source: Vantage Data Centers
Trenching final conduits for subsea cable connection
Posted in Globalinx Virginia Beach
Workers finishing up the final conduit tie ins on Corporate Landing Parkway Virginia Beach VA. Globalinx will now have 3 diverse point of entry conduit systems coming into our Phase I Data Center that will be tied into MAREA AND BRUSA subsea cables.
Source: Globalinx Twitter
Site Layout for STACK Silicon Valley
Posted in STACK Silicon Valley
The site was previously built and operated by Infomart before rebranding to STACK in Jan 2019.
Source: Stack Infra
WindChill Module
Posted in GIGA Charlotte (Mooresville)
The WindChill Module design uses fresh air to cool servers, cooling it using an adiabatic cooling system in which air passes through water flowing through evaporative cooling media. The design uses negative air pressure to guide air through the servers and into a contained hot aisle, preventing the mixing of hot and cold air.
Source: GIGA
Recently Remodeled Lobby of 55 S Market
Posted in CoreSite SV1 55 S Market
55 S. Market is an iconic 1980’s era building in the historic core of downtown San Jose.
Source: DCM
Plot of Land for Compass's Goodyear Facility
Posted in Compass Phoenix
The lot is on the corner of Yuma Road and Bullard Ave in Goodyear.
Source: Compass
DataBank has a Metro Optical Transport Ring in KC
Posted in DataBank Kansas City KC3
The transport ring connects DataBank's three KC data centers as well as 1102 Grand, Kansas City's telecom hotel
Source: DataBank
QTS Chicago Site Layout
Posted in QTS Chicago
Phase 1 has 6 MW of power and 48,000 square feet of raised floor space
Source: QTS
Rendering of SFR's Downtown Chicago Facility
Posted in Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
Centrally located, well connected, and completely designed as a data center. This facility offers 20MW of data center critical load with a total electrical service to the building of 40 MW and autonomous back-up power for 24-hours.
Source: SFR
CoreSite Operated Fiber Paths between LA1 and LA2/LA3
Posted in CoreSite Los Angeles (LA2) 900 N Alameda
For the price of a cross-connect one can order an "extended cross connect" between CoreSite's LA data centers. This allows a customer to deploy in the more robust data center (LA2) while taking advantage of LA1's network density.
Perimater Fence
Posted in Flexential Denver (Compark)
Flexential Compark site has over 2000 feet of high-security perimeter fence, two vertical pivot gates, several security barrier arms and a large 30 foot automated cantilever gate
Entrance Gate
Posted in Flexential Denver (Compark)
With over 2000 feet of high security perimeter fence, two vertical pivot gates, several security barrier arms and a large 30 foot automated cantilever gate
365 Main with the Bay Bridge in the Background
Posted in 365 Main (SFR2) Digital Realty
The 360 Spear data center is also pictured next to the 365 Main data center. Both buildings are owned by Digital Realty Trust
Newly Constructed SV10
Posted in Equinix San Jose Campus SV1, SV5, & SV10
Equinix SV10 represents the newest state-of-the-art Equinix International Business Exchange [IBX] center. This client's 183,000 gsf building consists of a two-story, steel framed building with precast concrete, with 114,500 gsf of Data Hall space situated on two floors and supported by six emergency generators. The cooling system was through exterior IDEC units located in a 34,000 gsf, 2-level yard with the equipment situated both at grade and atop an elevated mechanical platform to provide direct air cooling into the Data Hall.
Source: Paradigm Structural Engineers
The "Black Iron Forest"
Posted in Switch Las Vegas CORE Campus
The “Black Iron Forest” is a framework of extra-thick steel that supports Switch’s containment systems, but also serves as a thermal storage system, retaining temperature to help keep the room cool in the event of a power outage.
Source: Switch
The First Two Data Centers Take Shape
Posted in Facebook Henrico
Site work began in February 2018, just five months after the project was announced, thanks to Henrico County’s fast permitting approval program and the development-ready site at White Oak Technology Park.
Source: VEDP-Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Henrico Campus Expansion Layout
Posted in Facebook Henrico
In September 2018, Facebook announced an expansion from two buildings to five. This graphic shows the layout
Gasketed Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger
Posted in QTS Atlanta Metro
In a gasketed plate and frame heat exchanger, the fluids run counter-currently through the heat exchanger. The hot liquid normally enters through one of the upper connections and leaves through the connection underneath. The cold liquid enters through one of the lower connections and leaves through the connection above.
As the fluids pass through the heat exchanger, heat is transferred from the hot media to the cold media.
Topping Out: Placing the Last Beam on the First Building
Posted in Facebook Newton (Atlanta)
The practice of "topping out" a new building can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious rite of placing a tree atop a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction. Long an important component of timber frame building, it migrated initially to England and Northern Europe, thence to the Americas. [Wikipedia]
Source: Facebook
Overhead View of DFW1 and DFW2
Posted in Cyxtera Dallas DFW1
There is an administrative building between the two data center phases.
Source: Google Maps
Iron Mountain Scottsdale Front Entrance
Posted in Iron Mountain Scottsdale
Source: http://www.ironmountain.com/resources/data-sheets-and-brochures/s/scottsdale-data-center
Rendering of the Expansion building that is adjacent to Iron Mountain's existing facility
Posted in Iron Mountain Phoenix
An illustration of Iron Mountain's new Phoenix data center, which will feature 48MW of capacity in two phases. First 24 MW is scheduled to be delivered in June 2019
Expansion
Posted in Iron Mountain Phoenix
The expansion lot for Iron Mountain Phoenix campus is marked with a red box. IO Data Centers LLC originally acquired the land in 2016 for $8.55 million.
Overhead pipes carry water to cool the data center
Posted in Iron Mountain The Underground
In this photo taken Dec. 14, 2016, overhead pipes carry water from an underground reservoir to help cool the data center systems at Iron Mountain's underground data center in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Source: DARRELL SAPP, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette