Last month we had the
60-day data center [1] project, in which the completion of a 4,800 square foot server room was live-blogged by the staff at Pipe Networks in Australia. This month Stargate Colo is
blogging its buildout [2]of an 86,000 square foot stand-alone data center in Oak Brook, Ill., which is a more substantial project than the Pipe Networks facility. The facility is scheduled to open next month.
Stargate has been posting photos of the construction effort since March, which document the building’s transition, complete with cranes, cement trucks and generators. The new facility, which was
announced in February [3], will have a capacity of 2,200 cabinets. Stargate is best known as an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, but also offers hosting and colocation services. Its current facility is located in Napierville, Illinois.
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] 60-day data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jun/12/building_a_data_center_in_60_days.html
[2] blogging its buildout : http://stargatecolo.wordpress.com/
[3] announced in February: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Feb/09/stargate_announces_chicago_facility.html
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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