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HSBC Gets Approvals for Large NJ Data Center
UK banking giant HSBC Holdings has received approval to convert a former mail order pharmacy facility in Parsippany, N.J. into a 225,000 square foot data center, reports the Daily Record. HSBC (Hong Kong Shanghai Bank) will overhaul the 177,000 square foot former Medco Health Solutions property for use as a disaster recovery facility for its New York financial operations, and add a 46,800 square foot expansion as well. In addition to infrastructure upgrades for servers, improvements to the 22-acre site include security modifications – a 10-foot fence and berm, according to the Record’s report.
This report reinforces two trends – the continuing need for disaster recovery space for Wall Street, and the shift to retrofits of existing sites to data center use, seen earlier this week in announcements by Hewlett-Packard and the University of Michigan.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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