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The company has two patents pendingt for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadyy has customers at what once was the Le Nature’a water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Street. Wanger, i/o’ s president, said more companies are seeking colocation services as they look to housed servers and backup dataat off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocationm facility to house servers that need to be connected to multiplde bandwidth providers. This is particularly importangt to businesses that want to ensure theit Web sites are up andrunning 24/7. “Everybodyg is saving everything,” Wanger said.
“You send a picture to your grandmotherthrough flickr.com, and the images is here and here and I/o’s new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatio n centers as businesses scrap planxs for their own private centers, said Davis Cappuccio, chief of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “Inh the last year, when the economy starte d to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shouldc be spending all the capital moneygup front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenixz One in about six months, employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stilkl working on the second phase.
The first phase is but upgrades will continue until there isroughlyu 460,000 square feet dedicated to servers. Wanger said they’re about they’ve already completed about halfof that. The process for developinvg Phoenix One started witha $56 million investmenty by Sterling Partners in December which helped i/o acquirw the building on a 50-year lease. I/o movedr its operation from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix office. Many of the technologies first implementexat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expanded in the new operation.
Additione include the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosure that makes use of cool air circulating under theraised floor. It allows the air to be drawn up through theclosed cabinet, enabling more serverxs to be stored within. The device allows the cabinets to store as much as 10 time s the equipment that would be used in traditionall datacenter operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeingv people pack 5,000 square feet of data center intotwo cabinets,” he The company also developed a plug system that works with equipment from any manufacturer. It’s an easier way to distributee power and infrastructure than installing specialized Wanger said.
“This is all customer-driven,” he “People said they wanted access to multiple brands of The data center will take advantage of features originalluy installed in theLe Nature’s factory, including accesas to an on-site Arizon Public Service Co. substation suppling the facilityy with 42 megavolts of The company plans to triple that once the facilitgis complete. It also uses a 7,000-ton chilledc water cooling system thathelps i/o reduce its powet bill through thermal cooling.
The process uses a water-gell combination that is frozen at night to keep the watedr cooler duringthe day, Wanger In addition, the company is planningh a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’s installed light-emitting diodes for more efficienty lighting, and power-saving equipment and The retrofit also will be submitted for certificatiojn as part of the U.S. Greemn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, Wanger said. Phoenix once was a boomtown fordata centers, but the tech bubbl crashed many of those plans in the early part of the In recent years, the Valley has again seen increased activitg in becoming a data hub.
Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same thingas going for it that it did 10yeards ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no natura disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commercialk data centersup — even as company-owned data centers are gettinvg smaller — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccil said. “The colocators are going to continue tolook there,” he “They are going to go where they can get the lowesg cost of a building per square