Carpathia Eyes Sacramento Market

An exterior view of the Advanced Data Centers facility in Sacramento, Calif.

Secure hosting specialist Carpathia Hosting is seeking managed hosting customers for a new data center in Sacramento through a joint marketing relationship with the facility’s developer, Advanced Data Centers (ADC).

Carpathia, a fast-growing provider based in Ashburn, Virginia, disclosed its plans for a Sacramento facility on its web site, noting the available space at ADC’s 237,000 square mission-critical facility at McClellan Park on McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California.

The ADC facility is one of the industry’s “greenest” data center developments. The project became the first data center to gain Platinum certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard from the U.S. Green Buildings Council, the national benchmark for the design and construction of high performance green buildings. The USGBC pre-certified the ADC facility for a LEED score of 50 points, above the 45 points required for LEED Platinum, the highest certification tier.

RagingWire Gets $150,000 Utility Rebate

Colocation and hosting provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions has been awarded a rebate of $150,000 from Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) for the company’s use of green technologies to save energy in its facilites. RagingWire said the $150,000 was the maximum incentive available from the utility.

RagingWire’s energy efficiency efforts include water-side economizers, oversized cooling towers, variable speed pumps, and highly efficient chillers. The company says its efforts have created additional energy savings of over 2 million kWh of electricity per year, which equates to reducing 1.6 million pounds of CO2 emissions.

Award Nets Discount for Advanced Data Centers

An exterior view of the Advanced Data Centers facility in Sacramento, Calif.

Advanced Data Centers said this week that its new data center in Sacramento has received the largest award yet from an energy efficiency incentive program sponsored by California’s utility companies. The award from the Savings By Design program will allow Advanced Data Centers (ADC) to obtain a long-term reduction in its power rate from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).

Michael Cohen, the president of ADC, says the resulting base rate of less than 7.7 cents per kilowatt hour will be the lowest rate in California. PG&E rates typically run about 10 cents per kWh, while Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara offers rates of about 8.2 cents per kWh for large industrial customers (including a public benefit charge).

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.