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The World's Largest Data Centers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-visit dept.

1sockchuck writes "It seems data centers are getting bigger all the time. Who has the world's largest server farm? Data Center Knowledge has put together a list of 10 huge data centers, all between 400,000 and 1.1 million square feet. The story highlights the trend toward ever-bigger data centers, such as the Vegas SuperNAP and Microsoft's container data center, as well as established behemoths like the NAP of the Americas in Miami and Lakeside Technology Center in Chicago."

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  1. 1.3 million square feet by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

    While it won't be filled up with computer equipment, Quality Technology Services just bought the former Qimonda fab plant in Richmond VA for use as a data centre. At 1.3 million square feet it ranks (according the link) as one of largest in the USA. Who knows how much of it will be actually used, as I heard an interview with the CEO that said one of the reasons they bought the site was because it had "room for growth".

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  2. The 10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since the site is being clobbered and doesn't have a huge datacentre...

    10. The SuperNAP, Las Vegas (Switch Communications)
    9A and 9B. Microsoft Data Centers in Quincy Washington and San Antonio
    8. CH1, Elk Grove Village, Ill. (DuPont Fabros)
    7. Phoenix ONE, Phoenix (i/o Data Centers)
    6. Microsoft Dublin (Microsoft)
    5. Container Data Center, Chicago (Microsoft)
    4. NGD Europe, Newport Wales (Next Generation Data)
    3. The NAP of the Americas, Miami (Terremark)
    2. Metro Technology Center, Atlanta (Quality Technology)
    1. 350 East Cermak / Lakeside Technology Center (Digital Realty)

  3. Re:And only 8 months behind schedule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have, on only one occasion clicked on a /. article and it has attached the wrong comments. I tried to find out why, but when I refreshed it fixed itself...crazy stuff. It happens.

  4. They missed the largest one, it's in Tokyo by alexkane · · Score: 2, Informative

    They missed the largest data center in the world, the @Tokyo data center in Tokyo, Japan. It's over 1.5 million square feet, large enough to have it's own train station (Shintoyosu station). It sits on a piece of land out in Tokyo Bay in the section of the city known as Odaiba. I had a chance to do some work there a couple years ago when Lehman had a lot of space there (my pictures of the data center are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkane/sets/72157623651979353/).

    Some more info on the @Tokyo data center can be found on the web:

    Google map:
    http://tinyurl.com/y6djuzo

    http://www.jpix.ad.jp/en/service/site_info.html "The academic IX NSPIXP2 is located here.The total floor space in the building is 140,000 square meters which is the largest scale data center in the world."