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Switch Inc. was established in 2000 by Rob Roy, who is both the CEO and the company's leading inventor and chief engineer. [3] In 2002, Roy acquired a former Enron facility in Nevada through an auction he was the sole attendee of, due to the secretive nature of Enron's fiber plans.
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.
In 2008 Switch and Data expanded by adding over a quarter million square feet of data center capacity, an increase of 34% of their total capacity. [2] Before their purchase by Equinix, Switch and Data's footprint included 23 markets throughout U.S. and Canada and provides power and cooling densities of up to 200 watts per square foot to more ...
Switch opened a 130 MW data center in 2017, with plans for 650 MW on its 2,000-acre site. [22] [23] [24] It is scheduled to occupy 7.2 million square feet [23] and cost $4 billion, [25] with the aim of being Tier 5-approved. [26] [27] A 91-unit Studio 6 Hotel started construction in 2017. A Courtyard by Marriott is scheduled nearby. [28]
In 2002, Rob Roy of Switch Communications purchased Enron's Nevada facility in an auction attended only by Roy. Enron's "fiber plans were so secretive that few people even knew about the auction." The facility was sold for only $930,000. [25] [26] Following the sale, Switch expanded to control "the biggest data center in the world". [26]
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On this day in 1957, the first underground nuclear test was carried out at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375 square-mile research center located 65 miles away from Las Vegas.The 1,7 kiloton nuclear ...
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