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The company has two patents pendingb for technology installed in the and it already has customers at what once was theLe Nature’zs water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Street. Wanger, i/o’sw president, said more companies are seekiny colocation services as they look to hous e servers and backup dataat off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocation facilitg to house servers that need to be connectedr to multiple bandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businesses that want to ensurd their Web sites are up andrunning 24/7.
“Everybod is saving everything,” Wanger “You send a picture to your grandmotherthrough flickr.com, and the imagw is here and here and here.” I/o’s new centee comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatiojn centers as businesses scrap plans for their own privats centers, said David Cappuccio, chief of research of infrastructurer for Gartner Inc. “In the last year, when the economy starte d to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoul be spending all the capital money up he said.
I/o completed the work on Phoenix One in aboutgsix months, employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stil l working on the second phase. The firsy phase is finished, but upgrades will continue until there isroughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to servers. Wangefr said they’re about they’ver already completed about halfof that. The process for developing Phoenix One started witha $56 million investmeng by Sterling Partners in Decemberf which helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-yeaer lease.
I/o moved its operation from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foo data center, to the Phoenix Many of the technologies first implementedeat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expandexd in the new operation. Addition s include the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosure that makeds use of cool air circulating under theraises floor. It allows the air to be drawjn up through theclosed cabinet, enablinfg more servers to be storecd within. The device allows the cabinets to stored as much as 10 times the equipment that wouldx be used in traditional datacenter operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,000 square feet of data center into two he said.
The company also developed a plug systemn that works with equipment fromany It’s an easier way to distribute power and infrastructure than installing specialized equipment, Wangerf said. “This is all customer-driven,” he said. “Peoplr said they wanted access to multiple brandsof equipment.” The data center will take advantaged of features originally installed in the Le Nature’s including access to an on-site Arizonza Public Service Co. substation suppling the facility with 42 megavoltxsof electricity.
The company plans to triple that once the facility is It also usesa 7,000-ton chiller water cooling system that helps i/o reduce its powerd bill through thermal cooling. The process uses a water-geol combination that is frozen at nigh t to keep the water coolere duringthe day, Wanger said. In addition, the companh is planning a 4-megawaty solar system for the building’s roof, installed light-emitting diode s for more efficient lighting, and power-saving equipmenyt and design. The retrofit also will be submittes for certification as part ofthe U.S. Greejn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesigm program, Wanger said.
Phoenix once was a boomtown fordata centers, but the tech bubblew crashed many of those plans in the earl y part of the In recent years, the Vallegy has again seen increased activityu in becoming a data hub. Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearsd ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturap disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciakl data centersup — even as company-ownex data centers are getting smaller more companies may look at Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue tolook there,” he “They are going to go where they can get the lowesy cost of a building per square foot.
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