According to a recent article posted on GigaOm, of the top five U.S. construction projects in 2011, two were data centers.
A data center primarily houses computer systems and storage networks, normally used for redundancy or backups. They became popular during the dot-com boom when companies needed facilities for large-scale operations. With the recent trend in cloud computing, there has been an increased demand for data centers, thus the “building binge” that GigaOm is referring to. But building and hosting a data center is not for the meek. Data centers are scrutinized more than ever to have the highest levels of both security and reliability.
We know a thing or two about these beasts. Enterhost operates in a 20,000 square foot data center below ground level located in Fort Worth, Texas. We have fully redundant power and HVAC with triple power grid feeds, we house a 1.25 MW Generator with ATS and our facility requires over 300 tons cooling. It’s serious business.
In case you didn’t catch it, WHIR mentioned Enterhost in an article last year about the updates we made to our data center to make our AC units more energy efficient. We also reengineered our space to offer virtualization and cloud computing solutions to reduce the number of physical servers. It’s not easy being green, but it’s worth it.
If you are someone who likes visuals, check out the virtual tour of our data center. Let us know if you are looking for some IT real estate.