VMware [1] has become the latest tech titan to locate a major data center in central Washington. The virtualization market leader will lease more than 100,000 square feet of space in a new facility being built by Sabey Corp. in its Intergate.Columbia development in East Wenatchee, Wash.
The huge lease is another big win for
Sabey [2], which has already leased the entire first building at Intergate.Columbia to
T-Mobile [3]. The VMware deal means that Sabey has pre-leased the vast majority of space at Intergate.Columbia. The VMware lease, which was reported today by the
Wenatchee World [4], will take up about two-thirds of the 189,000 square foot second building.
VMware joins a growing list of companies that are building or leasing data center space in
central Washington [5], where cheap hydro power from the dams along the Columbia River has proven to be a magnet for massive data center projects.
Microsoft [6],
Yahoo [7], Intuit,
Ask.com [8]and
Base Partners [9] already have data center projects in the area.
Sabey announced its East Wenatchee data center project in August 2006. The company’s initial plans for
Intergate.Columbia [10] called for two data centers totaling approximately 380,000 square feet of space, along with a 75,000 square foot office building.
Sabey Corporation [11] has built and currently operates some of the largest data centers in the country, including Seattle’s 76-acre Intergate technology campus, one of the nation’s largest multi-tenant Internet complexes, along with other past operations in Los Angeles and Denver. It operates the Sabey Data Center, which includes a finished 120,000 square foot data center and 350,000 of expansion space.
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] VMware: http://www.vmware.com
[2] Sabey: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/sabey-index.html
[3] T-Mobile: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/06/huge_t-mobile_lease_at_new_sabey_project.html
[4] Wenatchee World: http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080728/NEWS04/928125542
[5] central Washington: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/quincy_wash-index.html
[6] Microsoft: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Mar/11/microsoft_readies_quincy_data_center.html
[7] Yahoo: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Dec/14/yahoo_rethinking_expansion_in_quincy.html
[8] Ask.com : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jul/12/askcom_confirms_moses_lake_facility.html
[9] Base Partners: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Aug/01/more_data_centers_coming_to_quincy.html
[10] Intergate.Columbia: http://www.sabey.com/test/pages/igc.html
[11] Sabey Corporation: http://www.sabey.com/
[12] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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