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(The Hosting News) – Following a successful fundraising campaign, Virtus have appointed ETDE (M&E subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) as their Principal Contractor and have commenced on-site construction.
The carrier neutral data centre is located in Enfield, North London and will provide in total circa 27,000 ft² of net technical space across two phases. EDF have delivered two separate 8MvA power feeds to the site boundary in an ‘active active’ configuration and Virtus have contracted with Virgin Media to be the first fibre provider for dual diverse connections in to Telehouse Metro and Telehouse East.
The first phase of the Tier III, concurrently maintainable data centre is scheduled for practical completion in late February 2011 delivering 8,632 sq ft of raised floor technical space across two dedicated stand-alone data halls of 4,316sq ft each. The data centre is designed to deliver and average of 1.5kW/sq m with a power compliment to each data hall in phase 1 of 640kW. Phase 2 will see the introduction of a further 18,000 sq ft.
Data Centre features include:
•LEED accreditation.
•2N UPS configuration dedicated to each stand alone data hall.
•N+1 configuration on standby generators.
•N+1 configuration on chillers with ‘Free-cooling’ functionality.
•Robust physical and virtual security features including CCTV and biometric recognition.
•Build and storage areas.
•Meeting rooms, presentation facilities and hot-desking.
•Remote hands and eyes services.
For interested parties the Virtus team is on call to address any enquiries for further information or arrange site visits please contact sales@virtusdatacentres.com
(The Hosting News) – Following a successful fundraising campaign, Virtus have appointed ETDE (M&E subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) as their Principal Contractor and have commenced on-site construction.
The carrier neutral data centre is located in Enfield, North London and will provide in total circa 27,000 ft² of net technical space across two phases. EDF have delivered two separate 8MvA power feeds to the site boundary in an ‘active active’ configuration and Virtus have contracted with Virgin Media to be the first fibre provider for dual diverse connections in to Telehouse Metro and Telehouse East.
The first phase of the Tier III, concurrently maintainable data centre is scheduled for practical completion in late February 2011 delivering 8,632 sq ft of raised floor technical space across two dedicated stand-alone data halls of 4,316sq ft each. The data centre is designed to deliver and average of 1.5kW/sq m with a power compliment to each data hall in phase 1 of 640kW. Phase 2 will see the introduction of a further 18,000 sq ft.
Data Centre features include:
•LEED accreditation.
•2N UPS configuration dedicated to each stand alone data hall.
•N+1 configuration on standby generators.
•N+1 configuration on chillers with ‘Free-cooling’ functionality.
•Robust physical and virtual security features including CCTV and biometric recognition.
•Build and storage areas.
•Meeting rooms, presentation facilities and hot-desking.
•Remote hands and eyes services.
For interested parties the Virtus team is on call to address any enquiries for further information or arrange site visits please contact sales@virtusdatacentres.com
Virtus Announces Construction of New UK Data Center
(Gawkwire.com) – National data center and peering provider CoreSite announces today Phase I of its Santa Clara data center campus at 2901 Coronado has been fully-leased as a single-customer, private data center. The customer is one of the world’s largest technology companies, headquartered in the Bay Area.
CoreSite’s Santa Clara data center adds eight megawatts of electrical capacity and 50,000 square feet of data center space to the customer’s growing, national, data center footprint. The Santa Clara deployment is the customer’s second with CoreSite and is being built-out in four separate data center rooms. Building construction was completed on April 9, 2010.
CoreSite built 2901 Coronado to LEED Gold certification standards, fitting with the customer’s rigorous energy-efficiency requirements. CoreSite’s Santa Clara data center features air-side economization, 95%-efficient UPS units in a 2-N configuration, and the latest in energy-efficient technologies.
With an additional 12.6 acres at the Santa Clara development site and a site plan for 446,250 square feet of data center space, CoreSite’s portfolio contains a tangible development position in the Santa Clara data center market.
“CoreSite is pleased to have expanded our relationship with this valuable customer in delivering our latest, premier data center development project,” said David Dunn, CoreSite senior vice president of marketing and business development. “Our experienced data center development team enabled us to rapidly deliver a truly world-class data center.”
“CoreSite takes pride in the efficiency, global responsibility and reliability we build into our data centers,” said Billie Haggard, CoreSite’s senior vice president of data centers. “We believe that 2901 Coronado exemplifies CoreSite’s standard of operational excellence and facilities management.”
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – September 16, 2009 – Provider of premium wholesale data center space for corporate customers, Fortune Data Centers, has leased 100% of its 8 Megawatt critical load capacity, within six months of opening the doors of its Phase 1 development.
John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers explained, ”Despite a tough economic climate, demand for data center space continues to be a bright spot. To have a facility of this size fully leased in such a short time period should confirm the market strength of Silicon Valley. And, we have a strong team with great vendors and business partners that helped make this happen.”
The company is now beginning work on Phase 2 development at the San Jose facility, which is expected to add approximately 6 Megawatts of critical load capacity. When completed, Fortune San Jose will occupy over 140,000 square feet and support nearly 14 Megawatts of IT critical load.
Dan Golding, vice president and research director, Tier 1 Research added, ”The colocation market is extremely strong, especially for high quality, highly redundant wholesale datacenter capacity. The Silicon Valley area, in particular, is one of the most under-supplied regions of the U.S., with datacenter demand exceeding supply for the past four years. This trend has been exacerbated by the credit crunch, which has made it tough to secure financing for large datacenter projects. The few large, high quality datacenter projects on the market are in great demand from both enterprises and Internet content providers – particularly if they are energy efficient, which makes them less expensive to operate.”
Mr. Sheputis continued, ”Our tenants are among some of the most respected companies in the world. They are experienced industry leaders in their core businesses and have many other data center holdings. They recognize that there are significant cost savings to be realized by partnering with a company that delivers highly energy-efficient data center space.”
Fortune’s Phase 1 data center delivers superior energy efficiency as measured by Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). PUE is determined by dividing the total facility power by the IT equipment power – the lower the resulting ratio, the more efficient the data center. During independent testing through a Level 5 Commissioning Process, the data center achieved a PUE of 1.37 at full load, an energy-efficiency level far superior to the industry average data center PUE of 2.0, and better than the EPA’s 2011 target PUE of 1.45 for state-of-the-art enterprise-class data centers.
Mr. Sheputis concluded, ”We have participated in several PG and E efficiency programs and have been very happy with the results. We exceeded our PUE projections for Phase 1 and expect to deliver an even better PUE for Phase 2 by leveraging and advancing many of the efficiency measures used in the first phase. We are currently defining the technical program for Phase 2, and it will include state-of-the-art efficiency measures for service redundancy and energy density. We’re confident that increasing the facility’s capacity will not only lower tenant operating costs, but our expansion should result in lower power costs for our tenants.”
Fortune Data Centers was founded to create a class of industrial grade data centers for corporate clients seeking a cost-effective alternative to the prospect of in-house development and facility management. Fortune’s San Jose facility is designed to provide best in class reliability and total value for large scale deployments of mission critical applications. The property meets or exceeds the toughest industry standards for data centers – in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. Fortune is a privately held company, founded in 2006.
To learn more, please visit: www.fortunedatacenters.com.
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – September 16, 2009 – Provider of premium wholesale data center space for corporate customers, Fortune Data Centers, has leased 100% of its 8 Megawatt critical load capacity, within six months of opening the doors of its Phase 1 development.
John Sheputis, CEO of Fortune Data Centers explained, ”Despite a tough economic climate, demand for data center space continues to be a bright spot. To have a facility of this size fully leased in such a short time period should confirm the market strength of Silicon Valley. And, we have a strong team with great vendors and business partners that helped make this happen.”
The company is now beginning work on Phase 2 development at the San Jose facility, which is expected to add approximately 6 Megawatts of critical load capacity. When completed, Fortune San Jose will occupy over 140,000 square feet and support nearly 14 Megawatts of IT critical load.
Dan Golding, vice president and research director, Tier 1 Research added, ”The colocation market is extremely strong, especially for high quality, highly redundant wholesale datacenter capacity. The Silicon Valley area, in particular, is one of the most under-supplied regions of the U.S., with datacenter demand exceeding supply for the past four years. This trend has been exacerbated by the credit crunch, which has made it tough to secure financing for large datacenter projects. The few large, high quality datacenter projects on the market are in great demand from both enterprises and Internet content providers – particularly if they are energy efficient, which makes them less expensive to operate.”
Mr. Sheputis continued, ”Our tenants are among some of the most respected companies in the world. They are experienced industry leaders in their core businesses and have many other data center holdings. They recognize that there are significant cost savings to be realized by partnering with a company that delivers highly energy-efficient data center space.”
Fortune’s Phase 1 data center delivers superior energy efficiency as measured by Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). PUE is determined by dividing the total facility power by the IT equipment power – the lower the resulting ratio, the more efficient the data center. During independent testing through a Level 5 Commissioning Process, the data center achieved a PUE of 1.37 at full load, an energy-efficiency level far superior to the industry average data center PUE of 2.0, and better than the EPA’s 2011 target PUE of 1.45 for state-of-the-art enterprise-class data centers.
Mr. Sheputis concluded, ”We have participated in several PG and E efficiency programs and have been very happy with the results. We exceeded our PUE projections for Phase 1 and expect to deliver an even better PUE for Phase 2 by leveraging and advancing many of the efficiency measures used in the first phase. We are currently defining the technical program for Phase 2, and it will include state-of-the-art efficiency measures for service redundancy and energy density. We’re confident that increasing the facility’s capacity will not only lower tenant operating costs, but our expansion should result in lower power costs for our tenants.”
Fortune Data Centers was founded to create a class of industrial grade data centers for corporate clients seeking a cost-effective alternative to the prospect of in-house development and facility management. Fortune’s San Jose facility is designed to provide best in class reliability and total value for large scale deployments of mission critical applications. The property meets or exceeds the toughest industry standards for data centers – in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. Fortune is a privately held company, founded in 2006.
To learn more, please visit: www.fortunedatacenters.com.
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