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Capstar to build largest data center in the United States

The space that was home to Western Electric Co. for the past 40 years, is currently being turned into the largest data center in the United States. Developed by a Dallas-based firm, Capstar Commercial Real Estate Services, the 700,000 square foot facility will be occupied by multiple tenants and will be completed in 2010.

HP’s scales down DC cooling management

HP‘s data center cooling management solution has been repackaged as HP Data Center Environmental Edge. The Environmental Edge is a scaled down version of Dynamic Smart Cooling which is designed to manage air conditioning systems in data centers. The new solution will offer offer 24-hour monitoring of power and cooling distribution.

Yahoo! to build new data center in New York?

Yaho0! may build a new data center in Western New York. The company talked with the U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, as well as New York State officials about the possibility. The new DC could be as large as 60,000 square feet and help create 50 to 100 jobs. According to reports, Schumer said the possibility […]

Highbridge Business Park secures $255M in financing for a new DC

Highbridge Business Park, a UK-based data center provider has secured financing in the amount of $255 million in to build a new DC at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside, UK. The funding for a new 45,875 square feet data center came from a group of investors from Chancery Tax.

Carbon calculator for data centers

A new online tool have been launched that lets managers of North American data centers check how much free cooling is available. With free cooling, the lifespan of data center facilities could extend. It can also reduce energy consumption and related costs. A “carbon calculator” tool was released by Rackspace two months ago.

AdaptivCool bets on Bluestone to improve HotSpotr

AdaptivCool has partnered with Bluestone Energy Services in order to provide their HotSpotr HT-710 with more than 1300 CFM. With a single motor and a backward-curved blower, it can move cold air to cold aisles or return hot air to CRAC. It also features a stand-alone mode and a networked mode. According to the company, […]

Intermedia’s new DC targets small and mid-sized businesses

A new data center for Intermedia has been announced by the company. Built to meet the demand of small- and mid-sized businesses, the new location is operated by Switch and Data which offers 200 watts per square foot of power. Intermedia’s data centers are rated tier-4. It offers 99.999 percent uptime guarantee.

Google’s portable data center containers confirmed

Google has confirmed that it used portable data center containers in its first data center project in 2005. Portable data centers has been gaining in popularity among large tech firms for the past few years. Google did not specify the location of the containers, but industry specialists believe they are probably used in Dalles, Oregon.

New CyrusOne data center

CyrusOne will build a new 50,000 square-foot data center in Austin, Texas. Located in Austin’s data center business park, it will have two substations that will be able to receive power of up to 400 watts from separate sources.

Wayback Machine’s new DC demands

A new data center will be opened for Internet Archive organization. It will store two petabytes of data for its now famous digital time capsule called the Wayback Machine, which houses 85 billion archived web pages dated since 1996.