World's Largest High-Rise Data Center Opens In New York

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 23, 2013 @05:31AM from the closer-to-the-sun-more-solar-power dept.

CowboyRobot writes with this excerpt from Wall Street & Technology: "[Wednesday of this week], Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the opening [of] a 1 million square foot high-rise data center [in the] old Verizon switching building at 375 Pearl Street. Sabey Data Center Properties, the owner of the property, has named the data center Intergate.Manhattan and says the building's location, power supply and connectivity to underground fiber make it an ideal location for a data center in New York City. ... Intergate.Manhattan has only one tenant so far, the New York Genome Center, a compute and storage platform for 12 leading medical institutions to tackle the big data challenges that will bring the benefits of genomics to patient care." Let's hope they keep plenty of fuel around for next storm season.

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How can they compete with other data centers that by Joe_Dragon · 2013-03-23 05:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

How can they compete with other data centers that lower land costs and are not in NYC / Manhattan.
Also what about cooling?
Also the costs of trucking stuff into Manhattan is high in just tolls.