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Chinese Range International Information Hub
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2020 and 2025.

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of fiber optic network cables that will connect
Reno, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. Data will travel between Reno and Las
Vegas in just 7 milliseconds, giving 50 million
people access to data within 14 milliseconds.

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Technology
Location: Virginia, USA
Area: 1,600,000 million Sq. Ft.

Part of a data centre agglomerate made of six
buildings, the DuPont Fabros Technology campus
boasts a total of 1.6 million sq ft following the
opening of the ACC7 facility in September 2014.

With 28 computer rooms and capacity for over
10.5 thousand servers, the ACC7 has 450
thousand sq ft of commercial area and produces
41.6 MW of power.

DuPont built the centre with a medium voltage
electrical distribution system and an isolated
parallel uninterruptible power supply topology.

4. Utah Data Centre
Location: Utah, USA
Area: 1,500,000 million Sq. Ft.

The Utah Data Centre, officially named the
'Intelligence Community Comprehensive National
Cybersecurity Initiative Data Centre for the US
Intelligence Community', is located at Camp
Williams near Bluffdale, Utah.
Completed in May 2014, construction costs
topped $1.5 billion. At the time of its opening,
Forbes estimated the storage capacity to be
between three and 12 exabytes, with the
possibility of this being extended in the future.

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During the construction, the new 65 MW centre
made headlines because of the several power
surges that brought systems down over 13
months, damaging equipment with costs
surpassing the $1m mark.

5. Microsoft Data Centre
Location: Iowa, USA
Area: 1,200,000 Sq. Ft.

Microsoft announced plans in April 2014 to build
yet another data centre. The new facility will add
1.2 million sq ft of commercial space to the giant's
portfolio that already grosses 4.1 million sq ft. If all
its data centre buildings were put together, Bill
Gates' company would rank first for the largest
amount of data centre space with 6.3 million
square footage.

The site is located in West Des Moines, Iowa. At a
cost of $1.13 billion the new facility will expand
servers over one million square feet. The new
infrastructure is due to be finished between 2019
and 2021.

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with a massive expansion at a cost of $677.6
million being carried in 2013. The new stage of
construction is part of a $2 billion project named
Alluvion.

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Centre
Location: Chicago, USA
Area: 1,100,000 Sq. Ft.

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Location: Bangalore, India
Area: 1,000,000 Sq. Ft.

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centre in the world outside the US.

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data centre facility in Asia (until 2016).

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space covering a range of data centre
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Furthermore, the company helped with turnkey
execution to build the first phase of the data
centre.

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the company's project come to light by offering
peer review consulting to Tulip.

8. QTS Metro Data Centre
Location: Atlanta, USA
Area: 990,000 Sq. Ft.

The centre was constructed in 1954 as a Sears
southeast distribution centre, and today gets
power from an 80 MW on­site substation
dedicated to the Metro facility.
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building and converted it to a telecom and data
centre use at a cost of $80 million. Six years later,
in October 2006, Quality technology Services
bought the 1033 Jefferson Street venue in Atlanta.

The structure is fed by two substations and two
electrical grids. An extra 36 generators support 16
independent UPS systems. Over 600 CRAH units
(30­ton and 70­ton), provide air flow to raised floor
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Location: Wales, Uk
Area: 750,000 Sq. Ft.

Completed in 1998, the Next Generation Data
Europe data centre in Newport is Europe's largest
data centre facility.

Originally built to host an LG semiconducter plant,
BT and Logica are the two main costumers of
NGD since 2010, occupying two 75 thousand sq ft
halls each.

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Welsh data centre, aiming to increase capacity for
IT and communications services for its customers
in the UK and worldwide.

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installations.

10. NAP of the Americas
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Area: 750,000 Sq. Ft.

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centre, was constructed in 2001 as a centralised
infrastructure utilised by over 183 networks. It also
detains a Tier­III class facility denomination with
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companies making use of racks, servers and other
services at the central downtown Miami building
include NewServices, Voxility, Locaweb and
PanamaIT.

To power the station, 12 HiTEC continuous power
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transfer rate than typical battery­based UPS. A
medium­voltage switchgear is fed by three
independent 13,200 volt feeders.

The building was erected outside the FEMA 500­
year flood zone and features seven­inch thick
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