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The boxy three-story building at 5851 Westside Avenue in North Bergen, N.J., attracts as much attention from passing motorists as a cornfield by the side of an interstate in Iowa. No signs proclaim its occupant, and its generic off-white facade and empty parking lot offer few clues as to what prompted developers to rehab the 163,000-square-foot structure in 2008, after it had sat vacant for about a decade.

Facebook Inc. on Thursday said it will build a 147,000-square-foot data center in Prineville, Ore. The project will cost $180 million. It will be the first corporate-owned data center for the Palo Alto.-based company, the world’s largest social networking service with more than 350 million users. The data center will be used to store and […]

In a sign that financial institutions may be opening their wallets again or a sign that the long wait during the recession is being pushed by IT demand, Boston-based Fidelity Investments is planning to build a $100m datacenter in Garner, North Carolina. Garner is just outside of Raleigh. The planned 100,000-square-foot facility will provide a […]

CHICAGO–On the outside, Microsoft’s massive new data center resembles the other buildings in the industrial area. Even the inside of the building doesn’t look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers. It’s what’s inside those trailers, though, that is the key to Microsoft’s […]

Be Sure The Budget Doesn’t Override Functionality Key Points Before anything else, decide on the business case for the data center. That will dictate design decisions and, ultimately, the budget. Be realistic about what you can live without. Can you live with a less resilient data center? Downtime will be the biggest trade-off when cutting […]

CHICAGO–On most days it takes the right access badge and a biometric scan to make it inside the doors of Microsoft’s massive data center. But on Wednesday, the company allowed a group of reporters, customers, and partners to tour the 700,000 square foot facility. The data center, along with another just-opened facility in Dublin, Ireland […]

Lee Technologies has won a $7 million contract for data center expansion and re-design services from Hosted Solutions. Under the contract, Fairfax-based Lee Technologies will manage and execute the build out of a data center at Hosted Solutions’ Charlotte, N.C., facility. The first re-design phase of the project has already freed up an additional 400 […]

Locally based Fortune Data Centers will open the second phase of its “green” data center here within six months. The expansion is underway because its first phase, completed early this year and containing 43,000 square feet of fully powered IT floor space in a 78,000 square foot building, is at 100% capacity, according to Fortune […]

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — A large business-tech company celebrated the opening of its new data center in Rensselaer this morning. Computer Sciences Corporation, a technology consulting company, marked the opening of its new North American Public Sector Data Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house. The 128,000-square feet computing facility adds 65 new full-time positions […]

Data center provider CoreSite (www.coresite.com) announced on Tuesday its planned six Megawatt expansion of its Northern Virginia data center in Reston, which is scheduled to be completed by this December. The announcement follows CoreSite’s recent completion of 20,000 square feet of space at the company’s downtown Chicago data center, which now offers 2 Megawatts of […]