Search engine Ask.com has signed a
lease for a data center [1] in an existing building in Moses Lake, Washington, according to John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who said the company declined to name the building or specify the size of the data center.
Ask.com’s decision continues the data center building boom in central Washington State, where four other major projects are already underway. Microsoft has announced plans for a
huge data center complex [2] in Quincy, as has
Intuit [3]. Meanwhile,
Yahoo [4] and
Sabey Corp [5]. are starting projects in nearby Wenatchee.
Cook notes that although Ask.com didn’t disclose the exact location of its site, one obvious possibility in Moses lake would be the
Titan building [6], a former NORAD Missile Control Center that’s been converted to data center use.
Central Washington has become a favored destination for data centers due to its plentiful supply of hydro power from dams on the Columbia River. The projects by Yahoo, Microsoft and Sabey are all huge facilities that will likely be filled with high-density computing installations featuring thousands of servers, requiring
enormous amounts of power [7].
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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URLs in this post:
[1] lease for a data center: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/111412.asp
[2] huge data center complex: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Jan/15/microsoft_buys_land_for_data_center.html
[3] Intuit: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Nov/09/intuit_planning_data_center_in_quincy_wash.html
[4] Yahoo: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Feb/10/yahoo_picks_wenatchee_for_wash_state_site.html
[5] Sabey Corp: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Aug/08/sabey_plans_100m_facility_in_wenatchee_wa.html
[6] Titan building: http://www.titanone.com/intro.html
[7] enormous amounts of power: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Aug/10/huge_power_draws_for_google_yahoo_sabey.html
[8] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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