Data center needs will continue to grow as cloud service providers and social media and content streaming companies expand and 5G, AI, and edge computing gain traction, spurring development of additional capacity nationwide.
Electrical contracting company hiring 440 trade workers, BIM, project managers, and office staff
April 25, 2022
The 900,000-square-foot data center aims to serve as a model of energy efficiency and will be supported by renewable energy from new solar energy plants. The project will also aim for LEED Gold certification and receive credits for water restoration efforts.
ESG goals may favor a decade of brownfield data centers
April 14, 2022
Because new construction is fossil-fuel intensive, new build projects may suffer on an embodied carbon scorecard, even if the goals of the new build are to lower future emissions operationally.
Including the whole-life carbon approach to the design process can identify which design selections achieve the lowest carbon emissions over the entire life cycle of the data center, where focusing solely on operational emissions may fall short.
The company formerly known as Facebook will supply its project with 100% renewable energy and will support 100 jobs
March 24, 2022
The Kansas City Area Development Council and its partners announced that Meta (formerly Facebook) selected the Kansas City region for its new hyperscale data center.
Brasfield & Gorrie recently completed construction
March 14, 2022
The one-story, 40,000 square-foot greenfield data center is located on a 6-acre site. The facility includes two 10,000 square-foot data halls, which will support up to 2 MW of IT load each.
Data center needs will continue to grow as cloud service providers and social media and content streaming companies expand and 5G, AI, and edge computing gain traction, spurring development of additional capacity nationwide.
The first building spans 14,500 square meters. The total planned capacity of the complex is 31.5 MW — in other words, the center’s electrical connections could cover the energy needs of a small town.
NextDC sees Uptime Institute certifications for infrastructure as essential for businesses operating in an always-on digital world and has embedded these standards into its overarching strategy for delivering the highest quality and most reliable data center products and services in the market.