The Sabey Corp. has contracted with the Douglas County Public Utility District for 30 megawatts of electricity for its new
Intergate.Columbia LLC data center [1] in East Wenatchee, Wash., according to the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer [2]. If the company were to use all of its contracted power, that would amount to about one-third of the PUD’s anticipated local demand of about 90 megawatts, said Bill Dobbins, general manager of Douglas County PUD. “This is a big deal,” said Dobbins.
There are even bigger deals right in the neighborhood, as Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are building facilities in the area that have arranged for even larger amounts of power.
Microsoft’s project [3]in Quincy, Wash. has contracted for a maximum of 48 megawatts of power from the Grant County PUD. Yahoo is building a
data center in Wenatchee [4] and has contracted for 42 megawatts of power, according to the Seattle paper.
The Grant County PUD owns and operates the two-dam
Priest Rapids Project [5] on the Columbia River in central Washington. Together, the Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams make up one of the nation’s largest hydropower developments, with the capacity to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity
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] Intergate.Columbia LLC data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Aug/08/sabey_plans_100m_facility_in_wenatchee_wa.html
[2] Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Data_Storage.html
[3] Microsoft’s project : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Jan/15/microsoft_buys_land_for_data_center.html
[4] data center in Wenatchee: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Feb/10/yahoo_picks_wenatchee_for_wash_state_site.html
[5] Priest Rapids Project: http://www.gcpud.org/hydro/hydrofacts.htm
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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