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Data Center Site Selection: Know Your Local Stakeholders

By Paul Gillin - October 23, 2020 1 Comment

Local stakeholders and community members can sometimes be overlooked in data center site selection, but they can be the data center operator’s most important ally. Stack Infrastructure and Data Center Frontier finish up a new special report series.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, disaster planning, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Follow the Network: Connectivity and Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Data centers require reliable, robust and scalable network connections. These needs should be considered early in the planning process. A new Data Center Frontier report series continues to explore the ins and outs of data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Network, Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

Development Update: T5, Stack, Flexential, Vantage, Iron Mountain

By Rich Miller - October 9, 2020 2 Comments

The groundbreaking at STACK Infrastructure's newest campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. (Photo: STACK Infrastructure)

Data center developers continue to deploy more capacity, as the digital economy races to keep pace with demand for more capacity due to pandemic-driven societal shifts. Here’s a roundup of this week’s development and finance news.

Tagged With: Flexential, Iron Mountain, Stack Infrastructure, T5 Data Centers, Vantage Data Centers

Knowing the Power Grid is Critical for Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

Data centers require lots of power, and users need to understand local utilities and their capacity and reliability. That’s why knowing the grid is crucial in data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

5 Keys to Success in Data Center Site Selection

By Paul Gillin - October 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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A data center is a long-term investment, and choosing a location requires being sensitive both the needs of the business and the surrounding community.  A new special report series, courtesy of Stack Infrastructure,, looks at 5 keys to success in data center site selection.

Tagged With: Data Center Site Selection, special report, Stack Infrastructure

STACK Lines Up Funding as Data Center Buildouts Gain Pace

By Rich Miller - September 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

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STACK Infrastructure has lined up $325 million in low-cost debt to fund new construction, including a 32-megawatt data center in San Jose that has been fully pre-leased.

Tagged With: Infrastructure Funds, Silicon Valley, Stack Infrastructure

Lee Kestler, Aligned and AWS Lead NVTC Data Center Award Winners

By Rich Miller - August 27, 2020 1 Comment

The Northern Virginia Technology Council presented its 2020 Virginia Data Center Awards.

Lee Kestler, Aligned and Amazon Web Services were among those honored as the Northern Virginia Technology Council recognized the industry’s accomplishments at its 2020 Virginia Data Center Awards.

Tagged With: Aligned Energy, Amazon Web Services, Digital Realty, Northern Virginia, NVTC, Stack Infrastructure, Vantage Data Centers

STACK Plans 1 Million SF Data Center Campus in Western Phoenix

By Rich Miller - June 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

STACK Infrastructure has bought land for a data center campus in Avondale, Arizona, which could reach 1 million square feet of build-out. It’s the latest in a cluster of data centers around Goodyear.

Tagged With: Goodyear, Phoenix, Stack Infrastructure

STACK Infrastructure Expands Data Center Campus in Silicon Valley

By Rich Miller - January 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

An illustration of the new data center planned for the STACK Infrastructure campus in San Jose. (Image: STACK Infrastructure)

STACK Infrastructure will expand its data center campus in Silicon Valley, adding a 32-megawatt facility adjacent to its current building in San Jose.

Tagged With: Silicon Valley, Stack Infrastructure

The Top 10 Data Center Stories of 2019

By Rich Miller - December 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Here’s a look at the Top 10 data center stories on Data Center Frontier in 2019, ranked by pageviews. What was hot? Google, rising rack density, data center startups, and the promise of 5G wireless.

Tagged With: Evoque, Google, Liquid Cooling, Stack Infrastructure

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Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT

Digitization Driving Increasing Requirements for Enterprise IT Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President, Connectivity at QTS Data Centers explains how digital transformation is putting more pressure on data center providers to provide a flawless experience for a variety of end users in a constantly scaling environment.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Far Enough to be Safe, Close Enough to be Fast: A Field Guide for Adding Geographic Diversity to Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Mission-critical IT operations can be impacted by disasters that are both naturally occurring, such as pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods or wildfires – as well as those that are man-made, including cyber attacks, terrorism or the inadvertent failure of infrastructure systems like power grids. Get the new report from Databank that highlights how physical distance is one of the first considerations in designing or selecting a disaster recovery solution.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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