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The company located there due to low land costs, abundant data fiber, and extremely low cost electricity provided by Grant County PUD for as little as 1.9 or 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Building began with a 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m 2 ) facility in 2006 and several expansions followed, occupying with 800,000 square feet ...
The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, [1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. [2]
The development project was maintained under tight secrecy. The data centers are 250 feet long, 72 feet wide, 16 feet deep. The patent for an in-ocean data center cooling technology was bought by Google in 2009 [106] [107] (along with a wave-powered ship-based data center patent in 2008 [108] [109]). Shortly thereafter, Google declared that the ...
The United States is currently the foremost leader in data center infrastructure, hosting 5,381 data centers as of March 2024, the highest number of any country worldwide. [15] According to global consultancy McKinsey & Co., U.S. market demand is expected to double to 35 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, up from 17 GW in 2022. [ 16 ]
It is one of the world's largest data centers and among the 10 most interconnected data centers in the United States. [5] [6] It is located at 50 NE 9th Street in downtown Miami. [5] [7] The facility is home to 160 network carriers [8] and is a pathway for data traffic from the Caribbean and South and Central America to more than 150 countries.
[6] The corridor also has data centers in Sterling, Herndon, Reston, and Tysons Corner. The area is a growing home for major data centers including those of Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s US East region, where an estimated 70% of AWS IP addresses are housed. [7] Wikimedia Foundation has its primary data center in the corridor. [8]
In 2011, the company acquired a data center in Lenexa, Kansas. [15] In January 2013, the company acquired Herakles LLC and its 92,000 square-foot data center in San Francisco. [16] In February 2013, the company acquired 40 acres in Irving, Texas for construction of a data center facility. [17]
The nearby data centers from Apple Inc. and Switch also received incentives. [44] [62] Nevada estimates the construction impact at $2.4 billion and the economic impact from the project at $100 billion over two decades ($5 billion/year, of which $353–378 million are wages) yielding $57 million in state and local taxes.