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Data Center Construction: A Developer’s Eye View

Data Center Knowledge

What''s it like to be on the front lines of a major data center construction project? Chris Curtis, co-founder and SVP of Development for Compass Datacenters recently wrote a series that takes you behind the scenes on the construction phase of one of his projects. Compass Datacenters Data Center Design'

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Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar

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GeekWire File Photo The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday.

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Vantage Completes Construction of its First Quincy Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Vantage Data Centers has completed and delivered the first data center on the Quincy campus to an undisclosed enterprise customer. Vantage Data Centers' The facility will support up to 9 megawatts of critical IT load at full capacity, as well as achieve an annualized PUE of 1.3. Quincy, Wash.

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Microsoft is a guinea pig for climate friendly concrete as it paves the way to greener data centers

GeekWire

Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash. Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide. So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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T5 Closes $55.5M Credit for Oregon Data Center Construction

Data Center Knowledge

CIT provides financing, says there’s demand for data center space in Portland Read More. Investing Oregon T5 Data Centers'

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Forsythe’s Massive Chicago Area Data Center Achieves Tier III Constructed Facility

Data Center Knowledge

Ahead of a grand opening next week, Forsythe Data Centers announced its 220,000 square foot data center has achieved Uptime Institute Tier III Certification for Constructed Facility Read More.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.