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Roundup: Data Center Announcements
There have been a number of announcements of new data center projects in the past week, reflecting continued activity in a challenging environment. Here’s a roundup:
- Online broker Scottrade announced a new data center in the Phoenix market. The 20,000 square foot facility will serve as a backup site for the company’s primary data center in St. Louis.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs will build a $32 million data center in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The 66,000 square foot facility will employee 120 workers.
- Limestone Networks opened a new dedicated hosting facility in the DataBank building in downtown Dallas, which was previously home to the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve Bank.
- Web hosting company Site Ox said it has opened a new data center in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville.
- Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) said it will open a new data center in Nerima district of Tokyo in March 2009.
About Rich Miller
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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