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Quincy: New ‘Power Center’ for Tech Giants

Posted By Rich Miller On July 10, 2006 @ 10:15 am In Seattle | Comments Disabled

Power costs continue to remake the map of America’s data center infrastructure, as we are reminded today in a Washington Post story [1] about the industry’s growth in Quincy, a small town in central Washington that is the future hoem of data centers for both Microsoft and Yahoo. An outtake:
This small farm town, population 5,300, has become the Klondike of the wildly competitive Internet era. The gold in Quincy is electricity, which technology heavyweights need to operate ever-larger data centers as they fight for world domination.

We’ve tracked the developments [2] in central Washington [3] for some months now. We’ll see more stories like this as local economic development officials come to better understand the benefits of cheap power as a business attraction tool.

About Rich Miller [4]

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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[1] Washington Post story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/08/AR2006070800973.html?nav=rss_technology

[2] developments: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Jan/15/microsoft_buys_land_for_data_center.html

[3] in central Washington: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2005/Nov/29/yahoo_eyes_washington_state_for_data_center.html

[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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