Traditionally, commissioning involves a team of 20 to 25 people crowding into confined spaces to monitor equipment and sensors — a thing of the past … for now, at least.

Amy Al-Katib, editor-in-chief of Mission Critical, interviews Robert Fernandez, director of economic diversification for Parkland County, on this episode of The Thought Cloud.

From leveraging prefabrication to increasing modular construction, there are many ways to complete facilities faster while improving cost and predictability.

As more technology and data-centric businesses move or scale in the region, facilities like One Century Place are key to providing customers the flexibility and performance needed to realize their digital ambitions.

Strong demand over the past several years has resulted in a 373.6-MW data center construction pipeline in the primary markets, one-third of which has been pre-leased.

The upgrade, to be completed by year-end 2020, will increase the facility’s IT equipment capacity, adding 3,600 kW for a total of 5,700 kW.

In the data center industry, storing data in a secure environment is of utmost importance. Green Mountain had a vision that if a mountain could keep NATO’s weapons secure, then it could also keep data secure; and the company was right.

Driven by demand from large enterprise and cloud users, U.S. data center leasing and construction completions reached record levels in 2019, according to CBRE’s latest U.S. Data Center Trends Report.

While they started out like lab spaces in the ’70s, data centers evolved. By the ’90s, most had transformed into enterprise-owned, purpose-built, “island fortresses” with all data held inside.