site selection

Data Center Site Selection

Evolving to better serve

June 19, 2020

Identifying a new location for a data center is not only a critical decision, it can have extreme consequences for all departments.

Design-Build Team Achieves Data Center Firsts for Michigan

Achieving Tier III certification on a tight schedule

June 9, 2020

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Granger Construction, Integrated Design Solutions, IBI Group, Motor City Electric, and Conti Corp. made history, as their design-build data center project became the first in the state of Michigan to receive Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification for both design and constructed facilities.

We're Getting Closer to the Edge

There are a lot of changes in store for 2020

Matt Lamont

April 10, 2020

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What do we ask of a site when we are faced with designing something that has never before been designed and that has no precedent? What would CSI's Gil Grissom do?

Data Center Site Selection Quiz

Dave Fanning

March 11, 2020

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A multitude of variables come into play when selecting the right data center location — from the cost of doing business (think taxes, real estate, and power) to network connectivity, latency, regional infrastructure planning, and more. Find out how much you know by taking this site selection quiz from Cushman & Wakefield.

The Death of the Island Fortress

Data center site selection in the 21st century

Bill Mazzetti

February 25, 2020

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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.

The Industrial Age of Hyperscale

The three-legged stool of getting to today’s hyperscale TCO

Paul E. Schlattman

January 20, 2020

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Within a short time frame, hyperscale data centers have gone from being designed with a typical wholesale data center layout to industrial-level design.

Nowhere To Go But Up In Data Center Design

The challenge facing data center construction for mission critical industries.

Chris McLean, P.E.

February 25, 2019

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Across a wide range of industries and applications, the world’s data needs continue to expand at an unprecedented rate. From finance to oil and gas to health care to agriculture, data has become a vital component of day-to-day operations across all industries; as data needs increase, so too does the pressure on mission critical systems to support data storage and processing.

Part II: Year-Long Road Trip

Site surveys and power, fiber, and threat (PFT).

Paul E. Schlattman

April 9, 2013

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With this column, the goal is to describe the site survey process as well as key components of power, fiber, and threat (PFT) in site selection.

IDC Architects Introduces First-Of-Kind Data Center Site Analysis Model

November 27, 2012

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The debut was made at an annual real estate development forum for data centers.

About Site Selection

What I want to learn at next week’s 7x24 Exchange

Kevin Heslin

June 8, 2012

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Chris Crosby’s audacious plan to extend data center services to underserved markets was the first of several conversations that got me to wondering how markets become underserved in the first place.