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The company has two patents pendingy for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadyt has customers at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottling operatioh off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seekin colocation services as they look to housd servers and backup data at off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocation facility to houses servers that need to be connected to multipl bandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businessezs that want to ensures their Web sites are up andrunning 24/7. “Everybody is savinvg everything,” Wanger said.
“You send a picture to your grandmothedthrough flickr.com, and the imagse 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 colocatiojn centers as businesses scrap plans for their own privatew centers, said David Cappuccio, chiecf of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “In the last year, when the economyt started to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoulsd be spending all the capital mone yup front,” he said. I/o completed the work on Phoenixd One in aboutsix months, employinfg an army of contractors, many of whom are stil l working on the second phase.
The firsy phase is finished, but upgrades will continure until there isroughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’ve already completed about half of The process for developing Phoenix One started with a $56 millionb investment by Sterling Partners in December whichn helped i/o acquire the buildinhg on a 50-year lease. I/o moved its operation from where it still hasa 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix Many of the technologies first implemented at i/o’s Scottsdaler center are expanded in the new operation. Additionas 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, enablinbg more servers to be storer within. The device allows the cabinetxs to store as much as 10 times the equipmeny that would be used in traditional datacentee operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,000 squar feet of data center intotwo cabinets,” he said. The companhy also developed a plug system that workds with equipment fromany manufacturer. It’ an easier way to distribute powerr and infrastructure than installingspecialized equipment, Wangerr said. “This is all customer-driven,” he said. “People said they wanteds access to multiple brandsof equipment.
” The data center will take advantage of features originally installeds in the Le Nature’s including access to an on-site Arizonz Public Service Co. substation suppling the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to triple that once the facilitytis complete. It also uses a 7,000-tonb chilled water cooling system thathelps i/o reducd its power bill through thermal The process uses a water-gel combination that is frozen at nigh t to keep the water cooler duringb the day, Wanger said. In the company is planning a 4-megawatr solar system for the building’s installed light-emitting diodes for more efficient lighting, and power-saving equipment and design.
The retrofir also will be submitted for certificationn as part ofthe U.S. Greenn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Wanger said. Phoenix once was a boomtownh fordata centers, but the tech bubblde crashed many of those planzs in the early part of the decade. In recent years, the Valley has again seen increased activityy in becoming adata hub. Cappuccio said Phoenicx has the same things going for it that it did 10yearsd ago: a relatively stable cost of electricitt and no natural As colocation continues to push the size of commerciap data centers up — even as company-owner data centers are getting smaller more companies may look at Cappuccio said.
“The colocatores are going to continue tolook there,” he said. “Theyh are going to go where they can get the lowest cost of a buildingb persquare foot.”