ADC Completes Substation for Sacramento Site

The new power substation at Advanced Data Centers in Sacramento

Advanced Data Centers (ADC) has completed construction of a new 69,000 volt, 45 megawatt substation at the site of its new data center in Sacramento. The substation, owned and operated by ADC, will be fully dedicated to providing power for the company’s 160,000-square-foot data center, which will support power loads of up to 250 watts per square foot. The substation is powered through diverse feeds from two highly reliable Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) substations, over recently upgraded high voltage transmission infrastructure.

“Ready access to large amounts of inexpensive, reliable power is the primary consideration for corporate data center customers,” said Michael Cohen, President of Advanced Data Centers. “The ADC McClellan Park data center is ideal for corporate customers because it is located in a seismically inactive area, outside of the 500-year flood plain and boasts $0.07 a kilowatt hour power costs - all located within 90 minutes of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.”

RagingWire Arranges $20M for Expansion

Colocation and managed hosting specialist RagingWire Enterprise Solutions (RES) has lined up an additional $20 million credit facility, the company said today. The loan from “one of the largest U.S. banks,” along with $30 million in funding secured in 2007, will allow RagingWire to accelerate its expansion, the company said.

“This bank financing demonstrates confidence in our operating model, predictable cash flow, and strong balance sheet,” said George Macricostas, CEO and Vice Chairman of RagingWire. “Eight years after start-up, we are in a very strong position in a growing industry, actively pursuing our expansion strategy.”

RagingWire to Build New Site in Sacramento

Managed IT provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (RES) is planning to build a second 200,000 square foot data center in Sacramento, Calif., the company said this week. RagingWire said it is currently negotiating incentives from the county and hopes to break ground for the new site in early 2008. The company said the expansion was needed to meet growing demand for data center infrastructure in the Sacramento market.

“We have seen explosive growth in the demand for premier, enterprise-class data center space over the last couple of years,” said George Macricostas, CEO and Vice Chairman of RagingWire. “Weathering the dot.com downturn reinforced our lean and efficient business model. As a result we continue to expand while remaining profitable.”

The expansion will increase RagingWire’s data center floor space by more than 120,000 square feet, which would give it a total of 230,000 square feet of raised floor in Sacramento. The company has developed its existing 200,000 square foot facility in phases, including a 46,000 square foot buildout announced in August. RES also has a dedicated 69kv power substation located on-site.

50 Megawatt Data Center in Sacramento

Feedbach Forum is a relatively new data center blog from Tom Offenbach, who previously worked as an executive for Equinix. He’s now working with Advanced Data Centers Inc., which is building a data center in Sacramento that will have 50 megawatts of power. Tom says this is “the most power at any data center site that I have ever come across.”

That’s a boatload of power. By comparison, Microsoft’s 470,000 square foot data center in Quincy, Washington is reported to have 48 megawatts of power from the local utility. The ADC data center at McClellan Air Force Base is 156,600 square feet, meaning it has more power with a footprint a third the size of Microsoft’s. The facility is a windowless concrete structure built by the US Air Force.

RagingWire Adds 46,000 SF in Sacramento

RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (RES) has opened a 46,000 square foot expansion of its high-density data center facility in Sacramento, California. This is the third phase of expansion for RagingWire’s 200,000 square foot facility, which features a 4-foot raised floor and 30-foot ceilings. The new space is engineered to support 200 watts per square foot throughout the equipment area, and more than 1,000 watts per square foot in some areas. The company has also added 10 Gigabit connectivity to support growing client demand for high-bandwidth applications.

“As businesses continue to pack greater processing power into the same footprint, we have seen an enormous demand for highly available environments that are capable of supporting high-density servers and increasing heat loads,” said George Macricostas, CEO and Vice Chairman.

RagingWire Builds Own Power Substation

Rising power loads for high-density server installations are prompting some industrial-strength infrastructure upgrades. Today Sacramento-based managed hosting specialist RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. said it has completed construction on a dedicated onsite 69kV power substation. With a total capacity of 46 megawatts, the substation provides plenty of power to support the growth of RagingWire’s expanding high-density hosting operation, including its recently announced Phase 3 data center expansion, which is engineered to reach over 250 watts per square foot.

“Many providers are turning down client requests to bring in additional data circuits because they simply lack the capacity to handle their clients’ increasing workloads and power needs,” said John Hoffman, CEO of RagingWire. “RagingWire has made the necessary investments in our data center facility to support our clients’ current and future power requirements.”

RagingWire Expands in Sacramento

Citing a strong demand for high-density data center space, RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (RES) has begun an expansion that will add 89,000 square feet to its facility in Sacramento, Calif. RES, a provider of managed hosting and IT outsourcing solutions, expects the Phase 3 build-out to be completed in the thrid quarter of 2007.

In addition to the data center expansion, RES has built its own onsite 69KV power substation. With power supplied from two separate grids, the substation is capable of 24 megawatts of capacity. The entire Phase 3 data center floor will be engineered to reach over 200 watts per square foot, according to Yatish Mishra, president and chief technology officer of RES. This level of cooling is made possible by incorporating multiple 1,200-ton chillers, a 4-foot raised floor, a 32-foot ceiling, and oversized main chilled water lines.