Comments on: eBay Picks Utah for $334 Million Data Center

By: Khabal Singhe

Khabal Singhe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:43:07 +0000

Actually Ebay datacenters are run by a company named VMC. While they will probably bring in outside management, VMC will hire locally as much as possible.

By: geofairy

geofairy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:15:49 +0000

GreenLight is right. The Wasatch fault along the east side could create a gelifaction (bowl of jelly) effect similar to the 1985 earthquake that affected Mexico City another basin. The whole reason the Salt Lake Valley is there is because of basin and range extension (east – west pulling apart of the earth’s crust). What bothers me more is that NSA is establishing a data center over near Camp Williams and their power needs will double the energy currently used in the Salt Lake Valley (this has already been reported in the SL Trib). So, to put this all in perspective, these data centers might not even hire the locals, and seriously, 50 more jobs for the ebay data center is not worth their new carbon footprint – totally out of proportion I am sure. We don’t need them here.

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:25:57 +0000

Um… greenlight, no. It doesn’t. In fact, there are very few natural disasters at all here in Utah.

By: GreenLight

GreenLight — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:23:56 +0000

Utah actually has a high probability of earthquakes.

By: eBay to build data center in Utah, pay workers 50% over median wage - Data center facilities pro

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:04:16 +0000

[...] Miller at Data Center Knowledge has this post about eBay deciding on Utah for their next data center. The Deseret News writes that about 50 new jobs will be created and are expected to pay 50% above [...]