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The company has two patents pendingv for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadh has customers at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottlinf operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companiesa are seeking colocation servicesx as they look to house server s and backup data at off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocation facilityh to house servers that need to be connected to multiple bandwidtgh providers. This is particularly important to businesses that want to ensure their Web sites are up andrunningf 24/7.
“Everybody is saving everything,” Wanger “You send a picture to your grandmotherthroughb flickr.com, and the image is here and here and here.” I/o’sd new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocation centersx as businesses scrap plansd for their own private centers, said Davidc Cappuccio, chief of research of infrastructurew for Gartner Inc.
“In the last when the economy startedto (companies) started to ask if they should be spending all the capitall money up front,” he I/o completed the work on Phoenis One in about six employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stilkl working on the second phase. The firstt phase is finished, but upgrades will continue until thered isroughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to servers. Wange said they’re about they’ve already completed abour halfof that. The process for developintg Phoenix One started witha $56 million investmenty by Sterling Partners in December which helpecd i/o acquire the building on a 50-yeaf lease.
I/o moved its operation from Scottsdale, wherd it still has a 120,000-square-foot data center, to the Phoenixs office. Many of the technologiess first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdale centet are expanded in the new Additions include the a server enclosure that makes use of cool air circulatintg under the raised floor. It allows the air to be drawjn up through theclosed cabinet, enabling more servers to be stored The device allows the cabinetxs to store as much as 10 timexs the equipment that would be used in traditionalp data center operations, Wanger said. “We’re seein people pack 5,000 square feet of data cente intotwo cabinets,” he said.
The company also developedx a plug system that works with equipmenr fromany manufacturer. It’s an easier way to distribute power and infrastructurer than installingspecialized equipment, Wanger “This is all customer-driven,” he “People said they wanted access to multiple brandw of equipment.” The data center will take advantagwe of features originally installed in the Le Nature’z factory, including access to an on-site Arizons Public Service Co. substation suppling the facility with 42 megavoltsxof electricity. The company plans to triplw that once the facilityis complete.
It also uses a 7,000-tobn chilled water cooling system thathelps i/o reducse its power bill through thermal cooling. The process uses a water-geol combination that is frozen at night to keep the water coolerf duringthe day, Wanger In addition, the company is planning a 4-megawatt solarr system for the building’s roof, installexd light-emitting diodes for more efficieny lighting, and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofirt also will be submitted for certificatio n as part ofthe U.S. Greenn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Wanger said.
Phoenix once was a boomtown for data but the tech bubble crashed many of thoser plans in the early part of the Inrecent years, the Valley has again seen increasexd activity in becoming a data hub. Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things gointg for it that it did 10yearsa ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no natural disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciak data centersup — even as company-owned data center are getting smaller — more companiesa may look at Phoenix, Cappuccio said. “Thwe colocators are going to continus tolook there,” he said.
“The y are going to go where they can get the lowest cost of a buildinvg persquare foot.”
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